mike g. posted:Adriatic posted:Oops...call me Quickdraw.
Or Thumbelina..
Just dont call me late for dinner.
Also a new backdrop, stage one.
Cool looking Crane, where did that come from?
Also great looking start to your new back drop!
That same neighbor. The main beam was in his junk box. Maybe Tyco too? Id wanna say Atlas or Plastiville (1/2 Seaboards lettering was there). The signal bridges on the lower level are old Plastiville.
The mech works, it has a dial for traversing the beam and another for raising/lowering the crane. I made 2 Lionel risers wider so the wider foot of the top set would fit on the top width of the lower ones. , I filled the middle with styrene sheets butted flush to the lionel girder work, retaining the look well. Then stacked them on square plastic tube I had found that same day while walking the dog around the block.
I just checked. The ho trailers dont have a gutter lip for the cranes jaws. These can't be hung and operated with without one so it will remain over the On30 and 0-27 el for a while.
I had a smaller wood A frame hoist there too. I like the texture of the wood better, rust might help. The size of this fills the scene better.
Those tanks are just two dice rolling cups on two Lionel tunnel portal tops. I had trimmed the portal tops off while "going Voodoo Child" on the mountain's height and glued them together back to back for a stone based tank pad.
Hi Mark.
I may not get past stage one on the backdrop. After my posts, I had my first derailment since I started it and getting to Casey's engine wasn't fun. It is very light, but 9ft long. Moving it requires herding the two big lazy dogs out of the room, moving things on a halfwall shelf, moving a chair over. It was a five minute job instead of 15 steps and done.
Im toying with going to smaller, removable sections or a sliding access door(s).
I do have a heavy duty grabber. Two actually, but looking at the delicacy of the #382 model's details made me recall how much damage using a grabber might cause. And then there is leverage; my lack of strength and control at chest height means I could never lift a post war engine out of that valley, I need both arms for lifting just a boxcar on a stick like that.. I need access!
