channabasanna Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 I have the NZG Actros, and when NZG announced the are Car Transporter i was eager to get it but the price was too much for me. Meanwhile KK Scale started releasing the truck rear tyre set hence i thought i will make use of MDF boards available from the 2 dollar shop and few mdf rectangle pieces. Trying to get it in scale of 1:18 as far as possible and this is my first build of something for 1:18 from scratch. Brought 2 40cmx15cm MDF boards (using the 15cm width since the NZG truck is almost ~15cm in width), and few KK truck rear tyre set. Did find that the 40 foot flat bet trailer total length is 69cm in 1:18 scale. Hence used the dremel and cut one board to 29cm. Drilled a hole in the center at 5cm from one end for connecting with the Truck. Added square rods for entire length of the joined boards to added support and used 1/2 inch screws. Need to change them to bit more longer screws. Sample test with the truck and tyre set Expecting it to come somewhat like this More to come, will use all your feedback as much possible. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 This may help Pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channabasanna Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 Updates on the Flatbed trailer: Added few Horizontal wooden pieces for more strength. I used more 5/8 screws to fix the wood well. Made a rectangular block to support the trailer wheels and temporarily added them. Through it is not realistic Wheels added, will need to create wheel arches Used a 1/2 inch screw as Kingpin to connect to the trailer Test fit Size comparison Will be adding: 1. Wheel arches 2. Side railings 3. Rear lights (will try adding LED) 4. Rear crash bar 5. Trailer stand (No idea what it is called) 6. Few boxes. 7. Add some putty and paint the trailer. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davie Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 That looks excellent. 4. The "trailer stand" you refer to are called "landing legs". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Neat! So if it's 1/18 are you building a new garage for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channabasanna Posted September 12, 2020 Author Share Posted September 12, 2020 (edited) On 02/09/2020 at 02:25, Davie said: That looks excellent. 4. The "trailer stand" you refer to are called "landing legs". Thank you 🙂 On 02/09/2020 at 14:06, Sabrejet said: Neat! So if it's 1/18 are you building a new garage for it? Thank you, Regarding the garage, not sure about it. Updates on the Flatbed trailer: Built the rear crash bar Built the side railings: Built side railings for two sides, one side i made it shorter to add a tool box Cut the small wooden sticks in same length, before making one shorter Similarly cut 8 pieces to fix the railings to the trailer. The Side railings are ready Attaching the side railings to the trailer, using UHU Glue i did stick them before screwing them with 1/2" screws Completed with adding the side railings Test fit with Actros Tested the trailer to make sure it turns well Edited September 13, 2020 by channabasanna Edited tags 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channabasanna Posted September 13, 2020 Author Share Posted September 13, 2020 Built the box for the trailer and fixed it made it to open and close with a Paper clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channabasanna Posted September 16, 2020 Author Share Posted September 16, 2020 Removed the previously built box for the trailer has it had lot of gaps Brought some 3mm Balsa wood from Art & Friend shop here and since it was off day for me to office, spent time in building this. Will need to cover the holes using puttty. The initial box was built The box door is being built Test fit of the door to the box Drilled holes in the side of the box wall, used some paper clips and a drinking straw for door opening mechanism. (The pink and blue pieces in the below pics are of the different paper clips) Glued to the trailer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channabasanna Posted October 3, 2020 Author Share Posted October 3, 2020 Updates on the Flatbed trailer: Trailer tail lights. Initially planned to make it as a boxed lights but then changed to round lights. The round lights: Used some transparent round stickers which are actually some furniture protectors on a medicine covers to get the inside texture, then used Tamiya clear orange and clear red as indicator and stop lights Test fit on the trailer (Just to see how it looks, this is not the final position of the lights) Trailer wheel arches Used a 1 litre White milk plastic bottle then cut them into strips Marked the Wheel arch positions, this was the initial marking i did, using a pencil around the tyre and it was sitting pretty low on the tyres. Then re marked the position and fixed them using Fevikwik. Will be painted later to flat black. Now after new marking flued to the flatbed using fevikwik and it stuck well. Pics of the wheel arches with the tyres on the trailer. Still to be done: The Landing legs Painting the trailer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channabasanna Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 Updates on the Trailer: Built the Landing Legs:[/B] They can be moved up and down, this was done by drilling 2 holes in each of the landing legs, and the leg holder. To hold the legs, i am using the rectangle paper clips and cut them to hold in place. The landing legs attached to the trailer and side support to hold them in place: With the landing legs down Landing legs up: With 2 1:18 cars on the trailer Paint and attaching tail lamps is pending, will probably add a head board and some connection for brakes, tail lamps connection from the tractor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channabasanna Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Updates on the Trailer: Initially painted the trailer with Tamiya Matt black, however the wood grains were visible. So brought few carbon fibre kind of looking stickers sheet from 2 dollar shop (Which was around 40cm x 80cm) and added it to most of the body. Added the head board to the front of the trailer: Side Rails were designed in powerpoint and printed on a thick drawing sheet: Rear boad was also designed in powerpoint and printed on a thick drawing sheet, also attached the tail lamp set. Few pics of the trailer: Left Side Right Side Trailer attached to the Actros: With the models loaded, shows the size of the truck with the trailer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandsaw Steve Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Scratchbuilt from wood! Just my kind of thing. What a difference that coat of paint and a few stickers make! 👍👍👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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