Fordson tugger hoist

[Franck Tavernier]

Awesome Chuck! 

Franck

[Ray Dunakin]

Ditto the previous well-deserved comments of high praise! The realism of this piece is unsurpassed!

[Greg Hile]

Mighty impressive!

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks!

Finally some bench time; I finished the trip drum brake band and spring hanger, and added a grease cup to the bearing.

The brake pad was made from .02 black styrene that was textured on the sides by rolling a file along the edge. Then it was heat formed in a circle shape by taping it to a socket and dipping it in hot water. Then painted with an asbestos-ey white color and glued on. The brake band is .01 styrene strip that was embossed with rivets. I printed the pattern on paper and taped it to the styrene, and then I pressed the rivets to depth using a shaped brass wire in my (non-spinning) drill press, using the depth stop to get consistent sizes. I 3D printed some linkage parts to the brake pedal rod, and installed it all with 1mm brass screws at each end of the brake band.

The spring hanger (that relives pressure when the brake pedal is released) was made from .03 x .09 brass strip that was bent to shape. The spring was made from annealed brass wire and held down with 1mm brass nuts and styrene washers.

The grease cup was printed, sanded and installed with yet another 1mm screw and nut in the base. Painted with oils and fine dirt.

[Ray Dunakin]

Wow!

[finescalerr]

Chuck, you're starting to get pretty good at modeling. -- Russ

[Bill Gill]

Wow!

[Barney]

WOWER !!
Barney

[Hydrostat]

Triple wow. And the known knitting statement.
The only giveaway is the tool marks at the golden shaft  .
I think I start hating you  . The brake pad execution really is something!

[TRAINS1941]

True to the saying "All the little details."

Truly outstanding modeling.

Jerry

[lab-dad]

Good show!
Never have I seen the spring hanger in all the steam donkey research I've done.
Great little detail.

Marty

[Design-HSB]

Hello Chuck,

way too good that I think it's really just a model.

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks very much for the nice words!

I added the drive sprockets and finally hid that ugly brass axle. I wrapped a section of the roller chain as a mask and then applied the oil paint. The polished areas are made using a pencil, and the oil paint and fine dirt grease mix is finished off (when dry) with touches of clear high gloss.

[Ray Dunakin]

Pure perfection!

[Bill Gill]

Boy that is just wonderful, Chuck!