twforeman
Certified Great Northern Nut
I previously built the Tichy jib crane and installed it on my freight house dock. It turned out really nice. But I decided that the scrap metal dealer needed a crane too - they are such useful things.
I didn't want to just build another copy of the Tichy model so I looked around for a different jib crane. There are not very many out there. But Durango Press makes one that I thought would suit. The local hobby store was sold out of them, so I mail ordered one. It came today and I started building it.
The first thing that struck me was the fact that the box says "pre-cut strip lumber", but all the pieces they included were actually longer than the full-sized drawing indicated they should be. So I cut them all to length. At least there were enough pieces included - not like some kits I've built.
Then I stained all the lumber dark brown. I'll hit them with a grey wash next to make them look aged.
While that was drying I started cleaning up all the teeny-tiny metal castings. Holy cow they are small. I got the winch castings all cleaned and decided there was no way I was going to be able to paint them before assembly, so I put it together.
It does make a nice looking winch, and I only dropped one part on the floor - it took me five minutes to find it!
I'll finish cleaning up the rest of the metal parts and then paint them. It shouldn't take too long to build this model and I think it will look pretty good when it's done.
I didn't want to just build another copy of the Tichy model so I looked around for a different jib crane. There are not very many out there. But Durango Press makes one that I thought would suit. The local hobby store was sold out of them, so I mail ordered one. It came today and I started building it.
The first thing that struck me was the fact that the box says "pre-cut strip lumber", but all the pieces they included were actually longer than the full-sized drawing indicated they should be. So I cut them all to length. At least there were enough pieces included - not like some kits I've built.
Then I stained all the lumber dark brown. I'll hit them with a grey wash next to make them look aged.
While that was drying I started cleaning up all the teeny-tiny metal castings. Holy cow they are small. I got the winch castings all cleaned and decided there was no way I was going to be able to paint them before assembly, so I put it together.
It does make a nice looking winch, and I only dropped one part on the floor - it took me five minutes to find it!
I'll finish cleaning up the rest of the metal parts and then paint them. It shouldn't take too long to build this model and I think it will look pretty good when it's done.