Always a pleasure to watch Your videos Sir! Informative and great for detailing truck builds! Thank You for sharing with Us here on the tube! Take Care, Be Safe, God Bless, Later
Thank you - having the 53' trailer available is a great plus for modellers as it is so much easier to shorten a 53' down compared to extending the 1970's era 40' kits. A planned future project with Moebius' other van trailer, the ribbed side one, is one about 42' long to match refrigerated unit from a National Geographic article on trucking published back in 1974. That article inspired a model of tractor (Pete 352) years ago, a trailer will complete the rig.
Considering how many years ago that was, the tooling for beaded side texture and fastener heads on AMT's 40' Fruehauf van kit is even more impressive. One box art picture I have seen shows it behind a day cab 359, red with black fenders.
Fortunately, these are just models and not trailers on the road. Crash testing (and real-life crashes) shows the importance of underride guard design. th-cam.com/video/-VucNLZIsIU/w-d-xo.html
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Great video, very well produced. Thanks again for the valuable tips!
Always a pleasure to watch Your videos Sir! Informative and great for detailing truck builds! Thank You for sharing with Us here on the tube! Take Care, Be Safe, God Bless, Later
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Thank you - having the 53' trailer available is a great plus for modellers as it is so much easier to shorten a 53' down compared to extending the 1970's era 40' kits.
A planned future project with Moebius' other van trailer, the ribbed side one, is one about 42' long to match refrigerated unit from a National Geographic article on trucking published back in 1974. That article inspired a model of tractor (Pete 352) years ago, a trailer will complete the rig.
Small differences but are needed to date the trailer.
FYI: The AMT 40' Fruehauf van trailer kit was available at least as early as 1969. I know this because I purchased and built one in 1969.
Considering how many years ago that was, the tooling for beaded side texture and fastener heads on AMT's 40' Fruehauf van kit is even more impressive. One box art picture I have seen shows it behind a day cab 359, red with black fenders.
Fortunately, these are just models and not trailers on the road. Crash testing (and real-life crashes) shows the importance of underride guard design. th-cam.com/video/-VucNLZIsIU/w-d-xo.html