Afternoon all,
As some of you may remember, I attempted this build once before for my V2 rocket project. After building most of it, I realized the dimensions were all wrong. The compartments were too high and not wide enough and the wheelbase was too short. Now is the perfect time to get this one right....
For those who are not familiar with this trailer, I will offer a little background as to what I am building.....A short history.
A V2 rocket battery had over 100 vehicles in it and the launching of the V2 required lots of cables to perform the pre-flight checks and services, as well as the actual launch itself. When the rocket was launched, the cables attached fell away and got burned by the rocket propellant flames. The battery need lots of replacement reels to continue the launches. There were 2 cable reel trailers for this job. The F-110 small reel trailer carrying 8 cable reels and the F-108 large cable reel trailer carrying 56 cable reels. It also had 2 reel carts for rolling out the reels and some reels of commo wire too. I'll be building the large one...
This is the materials being used for this project,
The basis kit is from Das Werk. The body of the trailer will be scratched from Evergreen plastics and the reels are from my last attempt. A huge thank you goes to Jim (Jim & Samson) and Paul (Scotty3158) for their generosity supplying the reels and bits....
The sprues,
I do have a few more reels not shown. I will only be using the trailer from the bed down, The sides and ends will go in the spares box. The body and compartments will be scratched with Evergreen. With luck and beer, it should end up looking like this,
The 2 reel carts, spoked wheels and ladders will be included. I plan on having 5 doors open on one side for show. The others will all be closed....
As I have no plans and only 6 pictures, I will be using my famous Gusgogo Guesstimation System for the build. I did this on my last attempt but the trailer was 1.5 cms too short, throwing all the other guesstimations out of whack. I will begin this project in about a week due to another project that must be finished (94% done) first....
Sorry for the long BlaBla (Waffle), but I wanted to make sure you all know what I am building for this GB.....
Prost
Allen
As some of you may remember, I attempted this build once before for my V2 rocket project. After building most of it, I realized the dimensions were all wrong. The compartments were too high and not wide enough and the wheelbase was too short. Now is the perfect time to get this one right....
For those who are not familiar with this trailer, I will offer a little background as to what I am building.....A short history.
A V2 rocket battery had over 100 vehicles in it and the launching of the V2 required lots of cables to perform the pre-flight checks and services, as well as the actual launch itself. When the rocket was launched, the cables attached fell away and got burned by the rocket propellant flames. The battery need lots of replacement reels to continue the launches. There were 2 cable reel trailers for this job. The F-110 small reel trailer carrying 8 cable reels and the F-108 large cable reel trailer carrying 56 cable reels. It also had 2 reel carts for rolling out the reels and some reels of commo wire too. I'll be building the large one...
This is the materials being used for this project,
The basis kit is from Das Werk. The body of the trailer will be scratched from Evergreen plastics and the reels are from my last attempt. A huge thank you goes to Jim (Jim & Samson) and Paul (Scotty3158) for their generosity supplying the reels and bits....
The sprues,
I do have a few more reels not shown. I will only be using the trailer from the bed down, The sides and ends will go in the spares box. The body and compartments will be scratched with Evergreen. With luck and beer, it should end up looking like this,
The 2 reel carts, spoked wheels and ladders will be included. I plan on having 5 doors open on one side for show. The others will all be closed....
As I have no plans and only 6 pictures, I will be using my famous Gusgogo Guesstimation System for the build. I did this on my last attempt but the trailer was 1.5 cms too short, throwing all the other guesstimations out of whack. I will begin this project in about a week due to another project that must be finished (94% done) first....
Sorry for the long BlaBla (Waffle), but I wanted to make sure you all know what I am building for this GB.....
Prost
Allen
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