B R I L L I A N T!!!Thanks Rick, I hope it looks even better with it....
Paul, If you take your time, clean up all the gears correctly, use the glue sparingly and modify the cable reels a little, you can build this kit as a fully workable model. Here is a basic idea of it,
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One tower in the upright position. The only piece missing here is the support pole from the holder on the base (left side) to the holder on the right tower side (right of the pulley). By pulling 2 pins, you get this,
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Collapsed and in the transport mode. As you can see, the parts are all able to work like the real crane. I have another kit of this and when I do build it, I might just make it fully functional.........
Prost
Allen
Until you put paint on them, anywaythe parts are all able to work like the real crane.
Looking forward to seeing what you do with this mate. would the truck have out riggers or would the weight of the winch gear in the crane body balance it out when working over the side.I'm finally getting around to doing this Quickway Shovel.........it's a conglomeration of three different models, no destructions, no blueprints, just a couple of wikipedia pics and some"Stolen"downloaded shots of the one built by my good natured buddy Paul E. in Ohio. This was back in the Pre Scale Models days round about 2016. The nice thing about letting someone else go first on something like this, is one gets the chance to stand back and study the techniques used and also some of the "bits and bobs" that they throw at it to make it Nice. Here are a coupla shots with it just piece parted together.........sort of to get an idea of what I need to do (plenty)!!View attachment 455987View attachment 455988
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