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I have been scratchbuilding a j.h ford tipper trailer over the last few evenings and wanted to show you all.

These range of trailers are built by Nigel fords cousin Johnathan, from his farm in East sussex which was about 15mins from my old house and are popular among a few local contractors and farmers around the rushlake green area.

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it looks good reminds me i need to do some more to my cut down marstons

Thanks bud I'm going to build more from his range of trailers as he does silage trailers,flatbeds and dump trailers,maybe even some to sell,lets see those marstons soon

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How long did it take to cut and sculpt those plastruct sections before you assembled the trailer?

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How long did it take to cut and sculpt those plastruct sections before you assembled the trailer?

if you mean the suppport ribs,they only took about 30 mins for all four to be mitred at the 22.5 degree angle,will be quicker next time as I can use the measurements from these.

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if you mean the suppport ribs,they only took about 30 mins for all four to be mitred at the 22.5 degree angle,will be quicker next time as I can use the measurements from these.

So the majority of the skip and chassis are not plastruct then?

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So the majority of the skip and chassis are not plastruct then?

sorry,I wasn't sure what you meant Chris,body is made out of five pieces of plasticard with the four plastruct ribs and a plastruct chassis,taken about seven hours so far.

thats dam tidy jamie, see you didnt fancy have a crack at the ladder mind, no idea why going by that build so far you certainly have the skill to do it

Cheers Sean,looking at it now,your right the ladder doesn't look good so I will change it.Going to start the tailgate tomorrow morning and it will have a working grain chute,locking mechanism and have a tight seal so it can take a load.

  • 3 weeks later...
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I've done a bit more to the trailer,now got it tipping,new ladder,locking mechanism on the tailgate and working grain chute,going to change the pipe holder as thats not looking too good.

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Thanks chaps,just got the small fiddly stuff like lights to do now,few minor tweaks and prepare it for some paint.I'm not sure on the colour though,maybe a halfords match to a ford blue :-

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Looking very good so far. It doesn't look too far away from the 'old' AS Marston blue in your photos.

  • 1 month later...
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Thanks John and Sean.

Added all the extras now and got it finished bar the decals.Spray used was hafords non metallic tahiti blue,not a perfect match but I felt picking a lemken matched colour would be too bright for it.

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Last photos now,I will be in need of a batch of decals made for this and other j.h ford trailers in the future,If anyone on this forum could design and make them for some £ ,I'd be very grateful

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stunning jamie,a real credit to you

Thanks Paul,I want to do another j.h ford grain trailer time permitting,although the body shape is different from this one and much more difficault to make as its slightly rounded

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