POLA G Yard Crane for the FBGR
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:31 pm
A few Christmases ago, this yard crane kit from POLA G was received as a present.
At last I have got round to building the kit, but not quite following all the instructions.
The kit itself consists of a number of different coloured plastic components, all numbered in frames, with diagrammatic instructions showing the order of construction as well as which parts should be glued and which parts should not.
The plastic, as well as being coloured, also had an ink or black colour wash applied in a haphazard way, I presume to give the impression of weathering.
After separating the parts from the frames (but no sooner than needed – as instructions), I cleaned up any nibs or casting lines, as well as making sure that the areas to be glued were scraped clean of the colour wash. The instructions say “Use UHU plastic cement only”, but I used Humbrol Poly Cement (yellow bottle).
We thought that the copper coloured pointy roof was totally out of scale, so I fabricated a smaller simpler roof, that just covered the machinery (not the operators), out of Plasticard corrugated iron and sections made from sheet.
The crane would have been too low for lifting loads in and out of wagons if base/plinth as supplied had been used, so I constructed a larger base from Plasticard, and decorated it with bricks, a ladder and chain on posts round the edges.
The exact location of where (and which way round) the crane will be positioned on the FBGR has yet to be settled, so the pictures show two different orientations.
JOhn
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The kit itself consists of a number of different coloured plastic components, all numbered in frames, with diagrammatic instructions showing the order of construction as well as which parts should be glued and which parts should not.
The plastic, as well as being coloured, also had an ink or black colour wash applied in a haphazard way, I presume to give the impression of weathering.
After separating the parts from the frames (but no sooner than needed – as instructions), I cleaned up any nibs or casting lines, as well as making sure that the areas to be glued were scraped clean of the colour wash. The instructions say “Use UHU plastic cement only”, but I used Humbrol Poly Cement (yellow bottle).
We thought that the copper coloured pointy roof was totally out of scale, so I fabricated a smaller simpler roof, that just covered the machinery (not the operators), out of Plasticard corrugated iron and sections made from sheet.
The crane would have been too low for lifting loads in and out of wagons if base/plinth as supplied had been used, so I constructed a larger base from Plasticard, and decorated it with bricks, a ladder and chain on posts round the edges.
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JOhn
I would like to build one myself. Congrats´