Trailers Done, including Lucy & Desi and The Long, Long Trailer

When I saw the picture of the trailer, I heard the music from when they opened the door. lol! They all look great. Thanks for sharing!

Nice job.

Good job

Now that's some output.... From your first post to now I believe there might be 24 hours and you have completed 4 trailers.  Nice job....

I love it! I build plastic 'movie cars' in 1/25 scale so this is perfect!! Nice work!

Opps - 5 new trailers...

Nice Job Lee, great color combo's.

What?  No 'Bull's-eyes' on the rooftops for the passing tornados??

I watched them making that movie at MGM in 1953 if I remember the year correctly, with  Lucille ball.

Hey Lee:  Why not make a trip to the greater Pittsburgh area?  I'll put you up for a couple of weeks, offer you good food and drink, and you can build me some of your great stuff.  I'll supply all materials, tools, and whatever else you need.  The offer stands open forever.

Love your stuff!!!

Cool! Got a batmobile parachute pick up service van that's nearly done...a batmobile, both madmax cars{new/revamped}...nice to see someone else doing that too.

Lee, I'm blown away....nice job! {Merc...ford...close enough!}

Bobaloo.......!

...oh{I'm gonna push it here}, maybe, just maybe, a scale-ish set of bongos in the back seat...for Desi! 

Lee: I love it, too! Great idea. Now you can do Lucy & the gang in their convertible, headed to LA in that rickety "motel" by the railroad tracks!

Looks great and I can't wait to see the results from your next steps! Terry

Lee.....shared this with my model car buddies...hope you don't mind! They loved it too!

When I was in the Navy, 5 of us sailors rented a trailer just to have someplace besides the ship. This was in Charlestown S.C. It was the tackiest trailer court I ever new. Your trailer collection brought tears to my eyes! Good stuff, Lee.

Nice collection of trailers, Lee!

The Long Long Trailer has always been a good joke with us, because I had an 8x40 trailer house for 8 years on a rural property.

In the movie, the trailer was pulled by a light blue '54 Mercury convertible. Buby/CC made one.

Thanks, I will look for one  Not sure if I will get one since I'm torn between leaving the trailer and Lucy and Desi pristine and as pictured, or weathering their trailer and placing it, without the car, in the trailer park - it would look good there.  If I keep it pristine I would park it to the shoulder of my country road as if their car overheated, etc., or in some little vignette anyway that evokes the movie, and then I would definitely get a '54 Mercury in the right color rather than the '53 Ford I used.

Another reason to get another car.  The car in my photo is not only not quite the right model, but its also a model with a friction wind-up motor on the rear axle (push it backwards and it will then run forward).  As a result the back seat is filled with a gigantic cast plastic pile of luggage to cover that mechanism, which means I can't put a pair of bongo drums as Burlington Route so cleverly suggested. 

I've been called a deep thinker before.....can't knock that one.

IF you can't find the correct car you could repaint the one you have...or another like it. Only the decerning eye would catch the make & model difference.

Add this, then I'll leave ya alone...possibly a set of bongo tops could be placed on the back seat load, so one gets the illusion of them being fully there...

BTW, if anyone else wants a copy of my Shasta trailer just yell...I'm going to try and reduce it to 1/48th scale today...hopefully...so it'll be ready to go.

Wow Lee, great job.  They look great!  What did you use to build them??

Most awesome Lee keep inspiring us.

Lee, here's some more shots. Don

Cool.  Thanks.  I had seem the top one - printed it out as a guide when making the model.  But not the bottom one.  That is a good shot of it. 

Lee, they look great, you're belting these out like an assembly line.  

Lee, They had this or another set like it in front of the theater in Mill Valley when I saw the movie as a kid. Seems to me they added that back wheel just for the movie but not sure. Don

In that photo in front of the theater you can see the set of wheels, dolly, under the trailer tongue behind the Merc.

My parents had that year Merc but it had the green glass top. I think it was called the "Sun Valley". Man was that thing hot in the summer. Not many people had air then. Don

I saw them and thought; perfect.  I'm going to put the trailer in my trailer park but don't want to put a shirt on it.  Those tiny wheels will be perfect!

The family of a friend at school (2nd grade) had one.  Hot or not, I thought it was a fantastic car with a roof you could see through - very futuristic, sort of like the cars in the Disney futureworld shows.  I loved it!

wow, Lee, you are like a factory. seems like i just read the post that you were "thinking" about a run down trailer park. Oh, I was. And, just like that, here's the inhabitants. Can't wait to see the weathering and the detailing. great job. 

Jerrman

Lee

Just fabulous work, they look beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alex

Lee, where's the tackyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!

Get going boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don

Lee - My wife the Lucy fan is very impressed.

She also liked you pictures Don.

Nice job as usual. But where are the rocks?

Great work!  Such a great movie....love the scene with him trying to back in to the driveway...priceless.

Chris

In that case you should look on eBay for the one Collector's Classics (by Buby) made. They come in the "factory" colors of lt. yellow/green, and lt. green/green. Buby made additional colors as well. With time and luck, you should be able to get one for $35. or a bit more.

Love the movie and your reproductions too! Nice work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8GReeca704

Thank you.

I'm about to head upstairs to spend a delightful afternoon (I hope) working on the trailer park.  I've already put in a rutted road into it which I am about to paint "mud" and I will spend the after weathering and trashing trailers, but including the long, long trailer: I can't bring myself to make it look too tacky. 

Oh goody, this is the fun part now, making the "trash" in my trashy trailer park.

...you have scale pink flamingos?