Your question was addressed in the following paper: Carmen Elvira-Donazar and Luis-Javier Hernandez-Patricio. [Closed model categories for the $n$-type of spaces and simplicial sets][1]. Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. (1995), 118, 93. Allow me to define an $n$-fibration by quoting from the introduction: Let $I^p$ be the $p$-dimensional unit cube, $V^{p-1}$ be the union of all faces of $I^p$ except for $I^p\times \{1\}$ and $\partial I^p$ the boundary of $I^p$. A map $f$ is an $n$-fibration if it has the right lifting property with respect to $V^{p-1}\to I^p$ (for $0 < p \leq n+1$) and with respect to $V^{n+1}\to \partial I^{n+2}$. With this definition, and your notion of an $n$-equivalence they prove that $Top$ (meaning a suitable cartesian-closed version) is a model category. So you can forget all mention of cofibrations and get the fibrant-object structure you wanted. The proof proceeds by way of Simplicial Sets, so if you read that paper you'll probably learn loads more about $n$-fibrations. For instance, Corollary 2.1 says trivial $n$-fibrations are exactly maps which have the RLP with respect to $\partial I^p\to I^p$ for $0\leq p\leq n+1$. It is not difficult to see from the description of $n$-equivalences and $n$-fibrations that in the limit as $n\to \infty$ you get the usual model structure on $Top$. I should mention that [this paper of Golasinski and Goncalves][2] credits this model structure to Tim Porter and J.L. Hernandez via *Categorical models of $n$-types for procrossed complexes and $\mathcal{J}_n$-prospaces* from the 1990 Barcelona Conference on Algebraic Topology. But I couldn't find an online copy of that, so I went with the reference above instead. Note that the dual question to your question (declaring $X\to Y$ to be an $n$-equivalence if $\pi_k(X)\to \pi_k(Y)$ is an isomorphism for all $k>n$) has also been answered, and again there is a model structure. Here is a reference: J. Ignacio Extremiana Aldana, L. Javier Hernández Paricio, and M. Teresa Rivas Rodríguez. [A closed model category for ($n-1$)-connected spaces][3]. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 3545-3553 ---- EDIT (April 1, 2013): I recently learned of another paper in this vein by the same authors, thanks to a comment of Fernando Muro over at [this MO thread][4]. Here is the reference: J. Ignacio Extremiana Aldana , L. Javier Hernández Paricio , M. Teresa Rivas Rodríguez. [Closed Model Categories For [n,m]-Types][5] (1997) This combines the two types of truncation mentioned above to get a model structure on [n,m]-types (truncated by $n$ below and $m$ above) whose homotopy category is equivalent to the category of $n$-reduced CW complexes with dimension $\leq m+1$ and $m$-homotopy classes of maps. It actually does even more, because it gives a different model structure whose homotopy category is equivalent to the homotopy category of $(n-1)$-connected, $(m+1)$-coconnected CW complexes. [1]: http://www.sci-prew.inf.ua/v118/1/S0305004100073485.pdf [2]: http://www.emis.de/journals/BBMS/Bulletin/bul972/golasinski.pdf [3]: http://www.ams.org/journals/proc/1996-124-11/S0002-9939-96-03606-4/ [4]: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/126199/top-model-structures/126206#126206 [5]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.50.594