Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

As promised, here is the buildup of my 40' container trailer.

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Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Look's really good. Did I see hook up's on the front of the trailer?
And the MAN look's good pulling the trailer.

Big John

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Yes, Big John,
The hook ups are my own custom mods that I do for all my rigs. I use Miniatronic 4 pin connectors from internettrains.com
http://www.internettrains.com/mercha...=MNT-50-004-01

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Looks great Alan fantastic job.

Travis

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Great idea with the light hook ups, but they are backwards. Red should be on the driver side and blue on the pass.

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

petermoblin,

Really? I did not know that there is a standard for the air lines. Live and learn....

Thanks,

Alan

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Tamiya may have cut some corners on the trailer but it sure looks good and you made it look great.

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Thanks for the pictures on the build. From what I can tell it looks like a great kit. The only thing is trimming of the vacuum formed container parts looks like it could be a little bit of fiddly work, but I never enjoyed trimming the vacuum formed lexan bodies for my other RC trucks to much. The trailer frame and suspension looks well done. Not a bad looking model at all.

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Has anybody seen this? It a time-lapse buildup of the 40' container trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6MSBOlAQ-4

Alan

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Wow, does that kit look labor intensive! How many hours did it take you to build?

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Well, there are a lot of repetitive steps and some painting. I worked on it at a medium pace for about 8 days. (40-50 hours) The results were worth it.

Al

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

i am building one now it is hard to cut the plastic ..with the price of the thing it would have been nice for tamiya to already have the plastic cut out.nice work it looks true to the real container/chassis

Re: Tamiya 40' Trailer buildup
 

Nice job. Looks great!
Scott