Basic Tipper from a Hartland Kit

Hartland tip car kits go for under ten bucks, and are great for bashing all kinds of things. My favourite trick is to buy the vee skip tipper kit and mount the upper on my own resin-cast chassis frame. Then you can create a simple wooden deck that slips right onto the leftover original Hartland chassis, and you've got two cars.
Here's the starting point, right off the Hartland web site. In kit form, the HLW skip is cheap, easy to assemble, and makes a cute car that actually works. However, the combination of a tipper bin on a flat car platform has no prototype that I'm aware of (not that I'm a slave to prototypes). Vee skips really look more like this or this. What can be done...?
This is my resin-cast chassis frame, produced with assistance from Ferdinand Mels, who made some very nice molds for me.

The Hartland bin and supports have been added to a homemade resin cast frame with Ozark journals, Bachmann steel wheelsets, and Grandt Line nbw's.

The dents were done with a heat gun and the end of a ballpoint pen pressed into the bucket. The paint is a combination of sprays, from off-the-shelf aerosol cans, available at most hardware stores. The bin is Rona yellow, and the "rusty" metal is a base coat of Krylon camouflage black, lightly dusted with camo brown, and khaki, plus flat gray primer. The spatters are done by flicking a mixture of rubbing alcohol and concrete pigment off the end of a fan type brush with my thumb.

Nothing goes to waste. Here's the original Hartland undercarriage, with a new, simple plank top made from cedar, brad-nailed together without glue. I've added a steel bench to this one. The figure has a magnet in his pants to keep him from falling off.

Click here for more information on building a wooden flat using a Hartland kit, including downloadable full size plans.