Steam powered harbour crane - NOW WITH "HOW TO BUILD"!

[Hawkeye]

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

[Bullshott]

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]

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]

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

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

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?

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]

Admiral, I salute you Sir, you are a genius

[Pappa Midnight]

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]

Really great conversion, and really great paint job 

[Hammers]

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]

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

[Paul Hicks]

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]

'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]

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

[BigMecha]

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

[Zafarelli]

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]

 
I´m stunned!