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Just to get technical.....alot of reefers need em slid forward to compensate the extra weight of the reefer up front....just sayin! :)

Looks good.

Did you order leds from pmd? :D

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No I understand that, I just meant the tandems were very far forward almost to far forward to look scale. To me they look a little to far forward in relation to the landing gear. I'm a huge fan of this build so far since I was an owner operator with a utility reefer, not many guys do the custom owner operator looking reefers, especially the stainless wagons or the spread axels.

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yea thats true but if you look at the movie trailer the tandems are slid forward so that is the look iam going for i used the tamiya reefer body for the length and the regular box trailer chassis in order to get this effect..thanks for looking and commenting i appreciate it:p

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also the tamiya trailers are not really to scale so its what i have to work with ,not that far advanced yet to build my own from scratch but i am getting there:rolleyes::D:D

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your going to bring all this stuff friday right?

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Yea man I hear you, I'm not that skilled yet eitger thats why I'm trying to plot out my reefer build still. I must say Tamiya really doesn't make it easy for us American truck fans LOL. Your stainless optimus reefer is looking great, keep it up. I'm dying to see the tractor....

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hey civic ..not quite sure what you mean when you say bring it all friday?:confused:

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This looks very movie accurate, well done.

If you want a head start on building the old school trailer, enlarge and print the below:

http://papermodels.homestead.com/T19862EZ-Trailer.jpg

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If you come to ancaster on Friday are you going to bring this as well as your trucks to check out

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are you sure you want to see a half done trailer ?

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actually swagger there is a fellow on here that has built that one that you posted and he posted pics of it and it is awesome .i appreciate the info.:D thanks for looking and the comments:p:p

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http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...h/SSPX3903.jpghere are some updates

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got the rear doors installed and part of the stripe and the rear bumper is dry fitted in order to make brackets to attach

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http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...h/SSPX3897.jpghere is the rear bumper plate made by the one and only russisloud

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http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...h/SSPX3905.jpgreplaced the rear mudflaps with the black ones thanks for looking:p

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next will be installing the round bezels from lynn with the white lenses and lighting everything up :p

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logos should be ready by next week for installation

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looking good, cant wait to see it.

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that trailer looks awesome, cant wait to see the body painted

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There's an image of a man on the trailer. ;). Lol

The trailer is looking beautiful. I'm envious.

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Trailer looks great have always love the shine look on the trailers nothing beat the chrome look.

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I saw this in person today and it looks great!

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thank you all for the compliments..really appreciate it and hey ms maddie the image of the gent is some guy who took the picture:p:p:p

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Gotta love the transformer rigs ,awesome job on this build!!:D

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That truck is coming along real nice can't wait to see finiished product. If I knew you were going with the stainless look for your trailer I might have been able to get you some real stainless. I did my refer trailer using real stainless makes the thing real **** heavy though. I tell you what that stailess decal looks real **** good.

Tony

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thanks and i got a few cuts and cuss words out of it also this is actually my second stainless look trailer i did the tamiya box trailer metalflake red

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http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...h/SSPX2537.jpghere is the first stainless look trailer i did:p

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here are some updates

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http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...h/SSPX4251.jpggot the logos last week and installed them on the trailer

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http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...h/SSPX4261.jpgside view with logos and stripe and reflective tape hand cut and installed individually from real trailer reflective tape ..took me 2 hrs by eyesight only..i hope its straight

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http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...h/SSPX4257.jpgrear bumper re installed with the rear lights redone from square to round .also using lynn's chrome bezels with the white lenses .just need to install the red l.e.d.s to light everything up .i also started the chassis for the optimus tractor,will post pics later..thank you for looking and the comments:D

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Really coming along nicely, and i'm glad to see you back at it.:D This rig will definitley be a show stopper.:eek::eek:

Big John

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Looks great!!! love the look of these stainless trailers! Good job on it

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You can put multiple photos and comments on one post.

Trailer turned out really great, well done!

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nice great looking trailer!

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thanks guys for the compliments, and swagger i know about the multiple post thing ,travis told me awhile ago but i don't know what i am doing wrong:eek: i tried to keep both sites open at the same time ..this one and photobucket but when i go to photobucket to get picture and come back to this site the reply i previously held open is blank:mad: so i do it one picture at a time in separate post:( ...tell me how to do it and i will try again:confused: but you would have to explain in terms i will understand i am not 100% on this computer yet but i am getting there

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Trailer looks good...


As for the multiple post thing. You need to open two windows one for this forum and one for photobucket. then switch between the windows. What it sounds like to me is that you are switching to photobucket in the same window you have the forum open then backing up to the forum again. This will cause you to loose what you have put in your post.

Easiest way to open Photobucket in a new window. If you have photobucket set in a favorite then RIGHT click on the link and choose the "Open in a new window" choice. If you do it right you should have two tabs at the top of the browser, one that says RC Truck and Construction and one that says Photobucket. Then you just click on the tabs to go between the two sites.

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thanks dreamweaver i will give it a go and hopefully next time i post it will be done proper:o

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Nice build! any idea how your gonna do the flames on the tractor?

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actually brian i couldn't paint a flame if my life depended on it:eek: so because i don't trust myself to do a exact replica job for the paint:( i have inlisted a gent i know who does paint jobs with near professional results .there is 2 guys that can do it .one i have seen his work and his paint blows me away with the detail:D and the other is unbelievable what he can achieve with an airbrush or hand brush:): so to answer your question the cab is being sent out to be painted:p:p besides i would not want to have to do a bad repaint over a bad paintjob:rolleyes: