How to make cheap sandrails

I posted this truck about a year ago and said I still wanted to add sandrail to the back. I immediately got this tip from Alfons (def4x4) at that time. He told me there are pieces of hardware they use for plastering walls that look like sandrail. It is a long piece of metal that is placed against the wall and is used to plaster along so the plaster will get straight. I have been searching in a lot of different hardware stores from that moment on. Every time I drove by such a store and had a little time I just visited it and looked at what they had. They all had some kind of rail but none that looked slightly scale. Eventually I found this right one in the small hardware store IN MY HOMETOWN….. (I should have known that, it always is where you expect it the least… :-) )


I hope the pictures speak for themselves: I just cut it with a dremel, flattened it in the bench vice and with a hammer. Sanded it a little with grid 400 sandpaper, sticked it on with double sided tape.


That’s all, simple as can be. My truck has improved a lot with it, together with the interior it finally is really finished. Nothing like a little patience friends! :-)



By the way: the real scale version of sandrails is also available, follow this link:

http://scaleoffroad.de/pageID_4330534.html

Only a bit too expensive for my liking. (and too little work, it shouldn’t be that easy…;-) )