From Flat Bed to Low Loader

[kaipi0070]

Right now we have a seller in EBay who sells a kit that changes the Tamiya flat bed into a low loader.
Very nice parts, powder-coated but the folks buy that thing for more than 250.- Euros, that´s about $325.-!! My opinion, a little bit too much for five metalparts, so I started to use some of the original frame parts and built the low loader by myself.
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I cut off the rear end of the frame, used some aluminium and lowered the trailer that way.
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The parts for the front-end had to be built completely from scratch:
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So I build this trailer at a cost of $30.- for some Material instead of more than $300.-! Now I will add some details and that´s it!!

[rcman]

not bad for 30.00 looks good you could get some planks from micheals for around 30.00 and it would really look sharp. your scania looks great too!

[dabears]

Not too bad of a conversion!! Looks pretty good! You did a good job on it! I havnt seen the ebay kit but if its an overseas kit i dont look at the other ebays that often. Nice work!

[kaipi0070]

THX guys!
Yeah, will put some planks on it, makes it look much better!
@rcman: Just did the paintjob on the Scania, it was just blue before, a little bit boring, I thought.....!
@dabears: yes, the kit is on EBay germany. Right now there´s an auction running until next sunday.