1:12 scratch trailer(s) for the Purple Nurple

[dremu]

Not a lot of words on this one, just a flatbed like so many pre-made ones (Tamiya etc), but scratch because I'm cheap and stubborn (ie making things myself and to my own scale and spec.)

The tow rig is a printed Tamiya Globeliner-ish-thing, see https://rctruckandconstruction.com/s...ad.php?t=14196

One total DOH! moment was making the trailer a 53 foot. It's fricken hooge. I plan on further trailers (tanker, bare frame to carry my conex container, etc) but they will be 40 footers at most.



Frame is aluminum angle from the hardware store, 3D printed crossmembers between the frame and then the angled ones to the plywood.



That's the bumper. I've taken to using heat-set brass inserts for the threads, they're nice. Even got one of those arbor presses with a soldering iron on it to install, which mostly puts them in straight. (Okay, when it doesnt it's operator error, not machine.)



Suspension is your basic Chinesium. The leafs (leaves? loaves? fishes?) are soft for a trailer this big, so I'll need to add some extras to stiffen it up.



Bumper's installed, and you can see the flatbed proper at the back. Plywood with aluminum angle sides. Again, nothing really exciting or surprising, me starting simple since it's been a while I did a trailer. (And it was the five-axle variable-steering gooseneck M1000 for my Abrams hauler, which was insane.)



Printed up some bumper pads in flexible PLA, so I can back right up to a loading dock =))



There's also mudflaps, can just see to the left, of the same material. Assembling those wheels was T-E-D-I-O-U-S, I tell you. SOOOO many little bolts and lugnuts. I used to print my own wheels, and for instances like the HEMMT where it has beadlocks and such, I had to as I couldn't get them off-the-shelf. But for normal semitrucks and trailers, I like these. Cheap, simple, just time-consuming.

Coulda done electric actuators for the legs, but opted for just manual ones with two position, up or down:





Wheel chocks are printed and then spring steel wire (aka paper clip, as I have a bazillion and didn't have the right size music wire handy) is bent to make a handle





Actually two styles of hooks, one for the trailer (right), and then on the left, a different on to hang on the headache rack on the Frobe:



As divulged in my previous utterances, stupidly long. I laughed when my kid stuck his head in and said "Did you by chance, make that trailer a 53 footer?" He worked unloading semis in high school and apparently recognizes different types of trailers from quite a long way away.