'33 Autocar CA crane truck

[chester]

With all of the unbelievable brass work being shown lately, again I hesitate bringing any of my stuff to these pages. But then I open my big mouth often enough here so I guess I should show something once in a while.
Interesting prototype I picked for a subject on this project. I can't see any winch or power to it on the photo I have so I'm making a plausible assumption that it's under the bed of the truck and PTO from the driveshaft. I know this was done on occasion. The prototype was owned by a power company used for moving transformers.

The truck is a model from Roco (the Minitank folks) of the Russian Zis-5, a direct copy of the Autocar. The bed and crane are all scratch built.

[Mobilgas]

Chester,    Thats one heavy duty truck looks like it could lift a house?  Nice job on the build

[finescalerr]

I like it. So what if it's not scratchbuilt brass? -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

Very nice! What scale is it?

[chester]

thanks all,
Ray, 1/87

[marc_reusser]

Sweet.  Not easy building a neat, crisp, and equilateral crane in that scale.

Marc

[Junior]

Excellent truck as usual Chester! Just have the right front wheel touch the ground and the picture would be very realistic.

Anders 

[PuckHog]

  Another great looking truck from you,  Chester.   Is Roco still producing?

    Randy

[Gordon Ferguson]

Chester,

I keep on looking at all these little gems you produce and being tempted to have a go at this micro scale ............. and about the only thing stopping me apart from the eyes is the fact that I have unfinished projects scattered around in 1/72, 1/48, 1/35, 1/32, 1/24, 1/13.7 & 1/12 think I had better finish some thing before starting anything else!

Still its great work and the finish is just about perfect from that scale.