Boom Tender 07

[Rick_Marty]

Hi all,

Finished the crane rebuild a couple months ago and have finally found time to finish up the boom tender flat. Well almost finished, it still needs a bunch of detail work.

In case you don’t remember the crane was a bash of a 1:29 diesel crane to a 1:20 steam crane, the build thread is here.

WHAT TO DO WITH A 1:29 DIESEL CRANE

On a 1:20 scale steam railroad?? Well, here is one thing that could be done. The new crane sitting in the evening sun at the Redding yards. The only thing used on the carrying car from the original crane are the trucks and the under frame. The car was scratched from Styrene and has 2 and 1/2 pound lead sheeting as the under deck to add weight to the car. [cb1] The “Brownhoist” lettering is vinyl stick on and the white lettering is decals made by Stan Cedarleaf. The new cab was scratched from …

A picture

The boom flat car was built up using an old Heartland (I think) short flat as a base. It was widened and lengthened and re-decked with Redwood planking. I used the original trucks and a few detail parts and like I said still have a few things to ad.

The pictures.

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Thanks for taking a look.

Rick

Oh yea, thanks Bob for fixing it.

I still don’t understand just how that can work

but it seems to.

[Ken_Brunt]

Excellent, as usual…

[Greyshaker (Frank Bailey)]

Very nice Rick, well done!

[grabnet (Tom Grabenstein)]

Beautiful models.

Tom

[snowshoe (Shawn Viggiano)]

Very nice Rick. Great work as always.

[AndyC (Andy Clarke)]

Rick, nice work… the ““Unit”” looks great…

[JRad (Jon Radder)]

Looks great Rick. Prototype question time; Would there have been a metal wear plate on the top of the timber where the boom rests? In curves there must be some movement there. I’m thinking if there wasn’t a wear plate that timber would get torn up pretty quickly.

[Torby (Tom Ruby)]

I was going to say, “no fair sneaking in a prototype photo and claiming it’s your model!”

[Rick_Marty]

Thanks for the comments guys, it was a fun project.

Jon,

Believe it or not I copied this from a prototype photo, though a poor quality one,

the wood timbering was pretty obvious. My first reaction was as yours "wow, that’s going

to eat that timber up" I planned on putting a steel “rub plate” on top but as I was getting ready

to do that it dawned on me. That is steel on steel, that could wear a notch in the boom

framing members, probably not a good thing. I am going to mount another small timber on top

and consider it a sacrificial piece, probably what the prototype did.

Rick

[Denray (Dennis Rayon)]

Thanks for sharing another of your wonderful models

Dennis

[trainbuffjr (Aaron Loyet)]

Great Job Rick! The pair looks fantastic!

[Rick_Marty]

Another one back from limbo.

[Cliff_Jennings]

And another gorgeous one, I hadn’t seen this before.
Thanks Rick.

[Bruce_Chandler]

Another one back from limbo.

And fun they are to see! Looks good!