gjslsffan
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Finished a couple cranes this weekend. These are again from the crane parts box. I used the Roco booms, and Athearn crane houses and chassis on other projects. So, I ended up with a bunch of extra stuff, I dont need or want these so they be going up for sale. They are Roco cranes with Athearn booms, the 100 ton hook operates up and down the 250 ton hook is static. The tenders I made from yep spare parts too
I had 1 Athearn 50ft gondola and the bottom of a MDC 50ft box car, both cut in half with my metal cutting band saw and spliced together, used some styrene plastic channel, made a set of boxes with .040 styrene, the other boxes were made with extra pikestuff plastic and also cut the side doors (I thought the box needed doors) off a SP SD40T-2 shell that had been cannibalized for other projects. Did I mention nothing ever gets thrown away around here? The vent/stack on top the blues boxes on the tenders is actually the tool used to raise and lower the booms and 100 ton hooks.
The darker Grey one represent a freshly painted crane and tender, while the light grey represents a very faded paint job.
If you go here http://espee.railfan.net/wreckers.html you can see some interesting stuff and the idea behind the paint on these.
Anyways here are some pictures of my meager attempts in trying to fit all this Roco/Athearn/MDC/Pikestuff, and all together. Painted up a couple trucks and some plaster crates to put in the tenders so they would look so empty.
Thanks for looking!!
There will be 4 or so posts so I can get all the photos posted
The darker Grey one represent a freshly painted crane and tender, while the light grey represents a very faded paint job.
If you go here http://espee.railfan.net/wreckers.html you can see some interesting stuff and the idea behind the paint on these.
Anyways here are some pictures of my meager attempts in trying to fit all this Roco/Athearn/MDC/Pikestuff, and all together. Painted up a couple trucks and some plaster crates to put in the tenders so they would look so empty.
Thanks for looking!!
There will be 4 or so posts so I can get all the photos posted
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