Don't forget to re-attach the ladder, or the crane operator's going to have quite the climb! Beautiful work, though. I love seeing old toys/models receive new life.
This was a very impressive build! I could see there was a lot of work involved to make this and it turned out looking very good. Thanks for sharing this.
"Superb"!!! Congratulation..."Make something awesome out of old models" ...that´s also one of my several passions with a lot of fun factor!!! THANKS for sharing Martin. I´ll wish you and all others a nice and safe christmastime, Olli
I think this might be the best video from you. SO many ingenious ideas and tricks, with a simple focus on making the layout even more detailed and operational. I would love to see a continuation of this video where you add more motorization, and maybe even a magnetic mechanism to actually move the goods around. But this is already amazing, and the quarantine is obviously far from boring to you!
I'm literally building on a harbour right now struggling to build a proper old school crane. And then I go on RU-vid and what do I see? A video of Marklin of Sweden supplying me with inspiration. Fantastic! Thank you very much for sharing this! Greetings from the Netherlands
if you are building in HO /OO Dapol do a harbour crane for about £10 as a kit. Most/all Dapol is re release of old but good Airfix 1960/70's model railway kits.
Awesome rebuild. I use those motors for my 1/10th scale rock crawler winches. You can slow it down by lowering the voltage you are feeding it to get a more desired look of movement :)
Nice video again Martin. Thumbs up! Merry X-mas to you and stay safe and healthy: not only for yourself and your family but also for your followers to keep providing them with creative, original and detailed ideas. Grtz from The Netherlands.
A great build! Especially given lockdown. That "springy copper" you used for wheel pick-ups is actually phosphor bronze.. Can you not lower the output voltage using CV's on the decoder?? Every days a school day! :)
Just looking back at your older films Martin and this is a good addition to the channel back in 2020. The load kits are genuinely nice, but the motorization of the crane was excellent. A smashing way to build the crane hard standing wheel sets for the crane to run on. The same goes for the motor modification of the cab area to rotate it. Although the gearing is high if you had added a mini variable resistor, which could have adjusted the rotation speed. Even go into the CV settings and the speed there on the decoder. I will have to look for any follow ups to the crane mod after I finish this comment.
Hi Martin, nice crane mods! I have also completed a working crane, mine was a Faller plastic kit and I used the same motors with 1:298 ratio on 3V battery electronics from a cheap RC car to control the slewing and hoisting functions. This allows me to place the crane anywhere on a temporary layout. You may need to modify your design to fit the hoisting mechanism and still allow 360 degree rotation, the way i did it was to have the crane rotate on a hollow shaft with a large gear mounted under the cab, the motor sits next to this under the cab also and the hollow shaft allows the thread for the hook to run through and down to a motor under the cab as well. I hope this helps to make your crane even more fun. God Jul!
I also have used one of these geard motors on my home made turntable, they are very cheap and very good. Thank you for your videos over the past year, I have enjoyed them very much. You and your family have a great Christmas and a very happy new year. 🎄🍺👍
Cet homme est un génie dans le modélisme ferroviaire ! C'est dommage qu'on ait pas ces vidéos en français !!! En Allemand je comprends très bien . Chapeau l'artiste .....
Excellent beginning on the crane conversion...I was under the impression that speed control on the module was done by PWM, so I'm kind of surprised you couldn't get the speed down to a more realistic level...but I'm sure by the next time you revisit the crane, you will have a better solution figured out. Thanks for another great video, and Merry Christmas from Connecticut!
Fantastic, such a beautiful job on the old crane and no doubt you'll have a lot of advice on controlling its movement. As always great to watch the video...have a wonderful Xmas and the same to all your subscriber and stay safe
Can you tell me a little mire about the copper sheet you are using? (Car illumination sets)I am thinking i might be able to use that to make pick ups for my Triang Hornby trains. Thanks
The copper sheets are sold as ”contact blades” for Märklin interiour lighting. If not available, you can can pieces from thin Beryllium Copper, or Phosphor bronze.
Good evening from France ! Instead of changing the motor or the gears, can't you just ajust the value of some CV of your decoder ? I don't know the Märklin system, but on most DCC decoders you can adjust maximum speed, average speed, start speed etc. Seems much more easy to me. Idem with inertia, you can configure it if you want the motor to slow down before it stops. Maybe check the documentation of your type of decoder ? Best regards and best wishes !
Well done. You must be able to lower de motor voltage through the decoder I would think. Or use de function outputs and a small print to lower de voltage to 3 V or so
Actually.. An electrical motor has an area of ideal working point. As you move too far away from that point the motor gets really weak and lack performance. So, lowering the voltage or current will not do the trick. I simply need the motor to work in the right area. Only way to do that is to increase gear ratio.
Those crates look a little tall. I believe maybe you're supposed to build the crate around the top or bottom panels rather than building a hollow cube and gluing the top and bottom panels on.
Nice conversion of the crane. About the pallets they look quite big. Are they realy 1:87 scale because pallet dimensions are in real size 100x120 and 60x120 cm. Continue the nice work, stay healthy and enjoy Christmas.
For acrylic metallic paint, I'd advise you the new Metallic colors by Vallejo. You apply first a glossy black surface primer, then the metallic color (I often use the "Dulled aluminium" but there are several more, the only one not good enough being the 'Chrome" which never looks good in any brand I tested Once dry just spray the glossy metal varnish of the brand. I painted zinc roofs as well as metallic parts (like handrails or bannisters) using this paint and the result is simply amazing. Check the "Geremdio" group on Facebook to see the result on the Nord Belge station kit (for the awning roof) which is painted with this paint.
Hey, very nice work !! T O P kind regards from balticsea , write Dieter nice merry chrismas time and happy new year 2021 my best wishes, thx for all your hobby work sorry my english is so bad ...:)
What about using a thin coat of epoxy on metal barrels and other parts that might be made to look like they have rusted. It seems like you could leave brush marks on it by using a disposable paint brush that would come in a large pack brushes with all of them being the same type. The brushes I am talking about should only cost about $2.00 American.
