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Container Crane
Posted by
grahame
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02 May 2011
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It's been a long time since I added anything to my blog so here is a spring WOMW update; a container crane.
I picked up a Vollmer container crane kit for a fiver at the Redhill N gauge show recently .....
..... and decided to bash it in to something more British looking like this Freighliner crane at Millbrook rather than build it as shown on the box cover artwork;
It's taken quite a bit of bashing around and building new parts that incorporate bits of the kit. I had to move over the main single central cross beam and add a second one, and design and scratch build the machinery that travels along between the beams and raises the container grab. I've also built a new grab section and so far it looks like this;
However, there's still loads to do and the model in picture above is temporarilly held together with bit of blu-tac just for the photo. Obviously it's not an exact replica and is essentially a freelance design but I've tried to incorporate the essence and style of the Millbrook one.
September 2011
I've finished off the crane now and detals of it should appear in N'spirations6.
GRAHAME
I picked up a Vollmer container crane kit for a fiver at the Redhill N gauge show recently .....
..... and decided to bash it in to something more British looking like this Freighliner crane at Millbrook rather than build it as shown on the box cover artwork;
It's taken quite a bit of bashing around and building new parts that incorporate bits of the kit. I had to move over the main single central cross beam and add a second one, and design and scratch build the machinery that travels along between the beams and raises the container grab. I've also built a new grab section and so far it looks like this;
However, there's still loads to do and the model in picture above is temporarilly held together with bit of blu-tac just for the photo. Obviously it's not an exact replica and is essentially a freelance design but I've tried to incorporate the essence and style of the Millbrook one.
September 2011
I've finished off the crane now and detals of it should appear in N'spirations6.
GRAHAME
