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On to the second chapter of my small scale crawler project. After finishing “building a small scale crawler hauler” (link: Building a small scale crawler hauler | ARRMA RC Forum (arrmaforum.com)) it is now time to take things a bit further. In this new episode I will design and build a gooseneck trailer to be towed around by the Eazy RC Glacier.
Eazy RC Glacier
This trailer will have a place for the crawler on the backend and a small living space on the front part of the trailer. Below a nice picture of what I am sort of aiming for, this is a “sports crawler trailer” by Logan coach.
Website: Sports Crawler Trailers (logancoach.com)
Initially I planned on making a modular system so that I could adapt the flatbed trailer of my previous build to be transformed in a gooseneck trailer. I thought if I changed out the front of the trailer (triangle) I could easily change it in a gooseneck. But now that I started thinking about the layout of the gooseneck trailer I realized weight distribution will not be where I want it when sticking to the original plan.
So the gooseneck trailer will be a complete new design and build. Dimensions will be quite different. Of course the trailer will be longer, but I also decided that I want it to be a bit more narrow. I will make the design modular again to be able to change out parts of the construction if I don’t like them or if they not function as expected.
As there is more to this trailer then the simple flatbed I will probably need to paint (part of) it, dress it up with some scale sauce and perhaps weather it a bit. Also the towing vehicle will be dressed up with scale parts, at the moment I do not know for sure if I want to paint the blue body, or just only weather it. Time enough to finalize the plan on that aspect …
Upcoming week I will make a start with the basic design of the gooseneck trailer… to be continued !
Eazy RC Glacier
This trailer will have a place for the crawler on the backend and a small living space on the front part of the trailer. Below a nice picture of what I am sort of aiming for, this is a “sports crawler trailer” by Logan coach.
Website: Sports Crawler Trailers (logancoach.com)
Initially I planned on making a modular system so that I could adapt the flatbed trailer of my previous build to be transformed in a gooseneck trailer. I thought if I changed out the front of the trailer (triangle) I could easily change it in a gooseneck. But now that I started thinking about the layout of the gooseneck trailer I realized weight distribution will not be where I want it when sticking to the original plan.
So the gooseneck trailer will be a complete new design and build. Dimensions will be quite different. Of course the trailer will be longer, but I also decided that I want it to be a bit more narrow. I will make the design modular again to be able to change out parts of the construction if I don’t like them or if they not function as expected.
As there is more to this trailer then the simple flatbed I will probably need to paint (part of) it, dress it up with some scale sauce and perhaps weather it a bit. Also the towing vehicle will be dressed up with scale parts, at the moment I do not know for sure if I want to paint the blue body, or just only weather it. Time enough to finalize the plan on that aspect …
Upcoming week I will make a start with the basic design of the gooseneck trailer… to be continued !
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