AMT Trailer question.

Cardboard?!

I couldn't imagine?

I would suspect that with today's advanced modeling molding, they would be of styrene, or at least wooden dowels?

I would guess plastic. And probably empty inside.

log trailer has two styrene logs, and a plastic girder

flat bed has two steel coils made of plastic

the steel coils look more like a spraycan top with a lid....

Thanks for the answer............modern molding is not present in many AMT kits, particularly re- issued ones. As I suspected the steel rolls are probably unusable.

 

 

Speaking of bad moldings on kits still being injected.......I paid $65 dollars for the Glencoe SS US........it looks like a ten year old molded it in his oven....its that bad.

If you are really good with an airbrush, and weathering techniques, you can make the logs look like wooden dowels from the hardware store.....

 

I have seen the steel coils done up very nicely.. Again.. proper paint, some rust, weathering,awooden pallet and cribbing, meatal banding to holdit in place....

If your painting skills are less than you would like.. you could paint the coil grey, make up the pallet and stuff, and cover it with a Kleenex tarp...alot of steel haulers do this..

Jim A.

 HEY, wilbur; you could use wooded dowels as logs.Just take a wire brush(COARSE) in a drill and rough up the surface then stain and paint.The roll of steel(or rolls) can be made by using very large baking pans(the cheap aluminum kind)cut intostrips join strips and coil up and fasten down.The kits ,when I bought them years ago had plastic logs, beam and coil.   tankerbuilder