Inter-Action Hobbies 17' Travel trailer build

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I glued the screen material to the back side of the door. When dry, I used a new #11 Xacto blade to remove the door from the carrier sheet.



The trailer door on left and screen door on right.



Easy peasy!

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On one of the carrier sheets is a small panel. This is used as an interior brace and is slightly larger than the door. I wanted two braces so I traced the edge of the original one on the RIB card. I forgot to mention the trailer carrier sheets are made up of RIB board, resin impregnated board.

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I then glued the back  bumper on the trailer and the trailer hitch to the front. Again, these are glued to the top of the main bottom as shown below.



At this time I decided to check the roof paper. As you can see it fits over the rear bumper brackets.

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However, the front didn't fit.



I marked the paper and cut small notches in the roof paper so it fit over the front trailer hitch. See below.



Done for today.

[GPdemayo]

I'll be looking in on your build Tom.....

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I'll be looking in on your build Tom.....

Greg,

Thanks, much appreciate you following along.

Tom

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After painting the interior walls, I stuck the them to painters tape and sprayed the exterior sides with Tamiya Silver.

When dry, the walls were removed.

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The walls are stiff but looking forward, I'm thinking they will be a bit wobbly when the roof is applied.

So. I used a 6X6 piece of HO scale wood and cut one piece the exact width of the trailer floor.  I set the 6X6 to the side for now. I'll have more on this later in the build.



I then took some scrap 6X6s and glued them vertically on the inside of the trailer walls. This will help stiffen them later. When the glue was dry. I painted the 6X6s with the green.

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Be sure if you do this on your build you leave room for the wheels.



I then glued one wall to the floor section.

Back in a few, Diet Pepsi time.

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My next step was to glue the walls to the bottom floor of the trailer.



While that was drying, I added the Acetate windows. I left the paper on to minimize the finger smears on the window.

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The paper can be left on to represent curtains/blinds.





Done for today.

[tom.boyd.125]

Tom,
 How do you like that silver spray paint from Tamiya Color ? Never used it and silver can be a hard color to control...Tommy

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Tom,
 How do you like that silver spray paint from Tamiya Color ? Never used it and silver can be a hard color to control...Tommy

Tommy,

I like the Tamiya sprays. The paint sprays on evenly and as it dries, seek its on level.

I've used many different colors and have had no problem with any.

Thanks for checking in and the question.

Tom

[ReadingBob]

This is coming along nicely, Tom.  The pictures kind of hid the fact that this thing is probably a lot smaller that it appears to be.  I'm sure it looks really sharp in person.

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This is coming along nicely, Tom.  The pictures kind of hid the fact that this thing is probably a lot smaller that it appears to be.  I'm sure it looks really sharp in person.

Bob,

Than you. I'm very happy with the way it turned out and I'll finish the thread this afternoon. It was a fun build and a well thought out kit from Darryl.

Tom