well.... here we go again... more ramblings of my latest good idea.... this has been rattling round in my head for a while after reading Ashley Coghill's book, about Astran... Chris Hoopers transconti and M/e spec tilt!!!!

so after trawling some old editions of tmw as well for tips and inspiration some old articles on scratchbuilding trailers.. using a block of wood as a core..

This is step one... and it does remind me how much i hate wood work!

stick some plasticard to the sides to box it in, a ta.. da!


then more evergreen strip gets us to here

My group of fleabay donor fords only turned this weekend so, its a hastily mocked up wagon on the front lots to do to that yet..

and my current fave bit, my belly tanks


I'm indebted to tiltmans thread, as it's helping me with the layout no end! just not sure which livery variation to finish it in

using the old guiness transcon, i had one of these when i was younger, looking good mate

Aw Shucks my first thought was Ooh, magic, a few strips of Evergreen and a 4 Series Scania becomes a clasic Transconti!!
Ah well, great looking model though, should look fantastic when the paintings didded!

eek 2 months ago....well here's a wee bit of an update

IMG_4070 by Kryten65, on Flickr

Trailer's pretty much complete, i'm really impressed how it turned out with the foil tilt

on with the tractor now, in the the pic its wearin whats currently called the mk1 nudge bar, im now on to mk3!

i like that, will be watching this closely, i wish i could make a nudge bar as good as that did you use a soldering iron to join the copper rod & what size rod did you use, i would be greatful for any info on how you made it please as i've got one to make which is a little bit like that for my current project.

cheers
gaz

thanks mate, would you think of selling me one but with out the mesh please, heres my email gb3international at tiscali dot co dot uk & perhapse we could chat about it & i could show you a pic of the truck that is my current project.

cheers
gaz