From Flat Bed to Low Loader
 

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.
Here´s some pics:
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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!!

Re: From Flat Bed to Low Loader
 

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!

Re: From Flat Bed to Low Loader
 

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!

Re: From Flat Bed to Low Loader
 

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.