3-Axle Gravel Trailer

If you enjoy building trucks you will like this kit. This kit replicates a 28' Fruehauf trailer. It is nicely detailed and goes together very well. Assembled straight out of the box it makes for a good looking model. The instructions are clear and this issue features an expanded decal sheet. I particularly like the scroll work and County Road Commission logos. It lends itself very well to kit bashing and modifying. It can easily be cut down to a tandem axle version. Or with some scratchbuilding it can be modified into several variations such as my gravel train I uploaded pics of.

So I would like to start off by saying that overall, this is great kit. I mean, each kit has its flaws, right? This one has a bit more than I would have enjoyed, but they are easily correctable. The one that I had in particular had a large amount of flash and the dump had these odd imperfections along the ridges where you would expect it to be connected to a sprue. You know when you just break a piece off of the sprue without using cutters? that's kind of what it looked like had happened, even though it's a separate piece. The chassis' suspension requires clamps to stick together properly due to warping, but these are fine, like I said, easy fixes. I'm currently still in the building process, but I will update with pictures when it is completed.

If you use this kit the way I did you get a dump body to put on a tractor and use the chassis as the base for a flat bed so it's like 2 kits in one. Had fun being a little creative.