Rick's 1-87 Scale Kitbashed Brockway Shovel
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Small update: foot pedals installed in shovel cab, grab bar on cab side and truck cab dry fitted, hinges for cabinetry installed, door latches for rear engine access installed and made a counterweight and installed at cab rear.
Hi Paul, do you have a photo ref. or a source I can access to get an exact location for the tool set? Also for the lights and jerry can rack. I have seen jerry can racks on other rigs located behind the cab next to the spare tire....without pics. I'm having a hard time getting a handle on this. Thanks Buddy
Some ref. pics. Same cab just has crane boom attached.
Pioneer toolset
Jerrycan rack
Light w/broken lens.
HTHs.
Pioneer toolset
Jerrycan rack
Light w/broken lens.
HTHs.
Hi Paul, yes....I see it now. The source of my confusion was I was looking at the flat (passenger side) of the truck cab and it was the shovel cab you were talking about. This helps a lot! Thanks for the pics.
Today's efforts seem small in comparison to previous ones but I'm slowly moving forward with boom, dipper and bucket refinements. Also located the exhaust for the shovel engine as well as the tow hitch and tail light locations. The dipper pivot has been repositioned (deeper into the boom) and the huge blob has been milled down to a more realistic dimension.....also the boom trunions were capped and filled.....they, at least look a little less toylike. Bucket claws were shortened by half and I may remove more material as they still look like a set of four Mastodon tusks. The last little gizmo is the spool I scratched for the winch.......no idea as to what purpose it serves, but it's in all the photos I have seen of both crane and shovel, so it must be standard equipment. The last pic. is for the "uninitiated" to give a little perspective as to the size of this critter. 
Fine work going on here Rick. Very nice scratchery indeed.
Mark1
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You said it Tim
Neil Merryweather
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Thanks for posting the size comparison, Rick -brings the skill of it home to us normal people!
Looking good Rick. The spool on the winch is for those delicate tasks requiring a softer touch using rope instead of chain or steel cable.
Bucket refinements were not without mishap.........while cutting the bottom off the bucket the saw bound up and a huge chunk of plastic snapped off the bucket front all the way up to the Mammoth teeth!!! After turning perfectly good air "Very" blue I proceeded to make repairs and carry on......here is the result.
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boatman
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WOW Rick some great work on this shovel crane sorry im late at pickin up on it
chrisb
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Jim R
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Hi Rick
Just looking at the photos gives me a head ache. Cab interior looks great. You must be close to paint now.
Jim
Just looking at the photos gives me a head ache. Cab interior looks great. You must be close to paint now.
Jim
Thank you All for stopping by and the nice comments......I still need to do something with the main boom and bucket pulleys......and then there is the "rigging" to figure out before I get some paint on this "big guy". Also still a lot of small details on both the truck and shovel that need to be put in place.....gonna be a while yet but defo is closer than it was.
So I think I'm done with the bucket, dipper and boom mods. I still need to figure out a cradle to support the weight of the boom when stowed and then I need to concentrate on figuring out how to run the cable rigging for all this spaghetti. I made the bucket pulley/yoke moveable so it will fall naturally to its final position. Instead of gluing the pivot bolts, I heated up my soldering iron and melted them to the inside of the bucket.
