Author Topic: Steam powered harbour crane - NOW WITH "HOW TO BUILD"! (Read 27013 times)

Hawkeye · « **Reply #45 on:** October 05, 2009, 07:43:37 PM »

Beautiful. Just beautiful. And I love the statue! That's pure genius!

Bullshott · « **Reply #46 on:** October 05, 2009, 10:37:04 PM »

Amazing work Benbow. Made all the better by the excellent paint job. Like everyomne else has said .... lots of

..... and even more

The crane would look great alongside Malamute's London dockside warehouses

gamer Mac · « **Reply #47 on:** October 06, 2009, 09:49:42 AM »

Your painting skills match your scratch building skills, stunning

The bits box is amazing as well.

Do you ever built a kit straight out of a box or do you just buy kits to put in your bits box?
The statue is a great little piece. Love the weathering on the bronze.

Admiral Benbow · « **Reply #48 on:** October 06, 2009, 01:45:20 PM »

Quote from: Darkoath on October 05, 2009, 07:18:19 PM

I look forward to the WIP update on how you built it!

What do you mean? I thought this published already ...

Quote from: Darkoath on October 05, 2009, 07:18:19 PM

Would love to see some photographs with 28mm miniatures so I can see the size of it... it looks to be huge!

Please have a look here:

If you know the size of a helping hand, does it look huge?

Quote from: gamer Mac on October 06, 2009, 09:49:42 AM

Do you ever built a kit straight out of a box or do you just buy kits to put in your bits box?

Not that often ...

Through the years I surely have bought more kits for using their parts than to finish them, that's true. But most of the kits have been bought very cheaply at shows, fleamarkets or when shops closed down. And - the parts boxes were filled for the last 30+ years ...

Thanks all for your nice comments! Next project will be less ambitious, just painting some single minis for small vignettes ...

Malamute · « **Reply #49 on:** October 06, 2009, 03:07:49 PM »

Admiral, I salute you Sir, you are a genius

Pappa Midnight · « **Reply #50 on:** October 06, 2009, 03:42:02 PM »

No mortal man can scratchbuild to that standard............ me thinks dark powers are at work....

AWESOME work. I am totally blown away by your technical skills.

Regards
PM

SirAlban · « **Reply #51 on:** October 06, 2009, 05:59:01 PM »

Really great conversion, and really great paint job

Hammers · « **Reply #52 on:** October 06, 2009, 06:23:16 PM »

Quote from: Pappa Midnight on October 06, 2009, 03:42:02 PM

No mortal man can scratchbuild to that standard............ me thinks dark powers are at work....

You got that right. An anagram of 'Admiral Benbow' is 'mindblower a.b.a.' What a.b.a is is an enigma within a riddle, which is of course of satans little ways of making things mysterious.

Hitman · « **Reply #53 on:** October 07, 2009, 03:06:26 AM »

I love it...unbelievable detail...You sir, are a GOD among your peers!!!

Paul Hicks · « **Reply #54 on:** October 07, 2009, 07:10:35 AM »

A . B .A. = Always Beyond Amazing.

Well this be part of a game at Crisis at all?. I will be going this year and I will make sure I come and say hello.

Paul

Admiral Benbow · « **Reply #55 on:** October 07, 2009, 08:34:06 AM »

'mindblower a.b.a.'

As we say in Germany: "I break together ..."

Yes, the crane will be part of our slightly revamped game "Welcome to Tsingtao" at Crisis in Antwerp on 7th November. If you would like to have a look, you can find the game info flyer here:

http://www.ths-wargames.de/material/tsingtau/flyerengl.pdf

yamaneko · « **Reply #56 on:** October 07, 2009, 01:55:10 PM »

I've linked to this on my blog. I hope you don't mind. Beautiful work and very inspiring.

BigMecha · « **Reply #57 on:** October 11, 2009, 05:22:16 AM »

That is quite AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Zafarelli · « **Reply #58 on:** October 14, 2009, 07:02:27 AM »

Quote from: Admiral Benbow on October 05, 2009, 03:44:53 PM

Main block of outside machinery was provided as very nice resin block from Pardulon, even if it was not glued in the correct upright position as planned by the designer ... sorry, Jens

No need to apologize

This must be one of the best uses for the steam engine I've seen so far.

MadMö · « **Reply #59 on:** October 19, 2009, 04:58:24 AM »

I´m stunned!

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