Hello,

one further project I am working on at the moment...

The Soviet truck ZIL-157 in 1/35 of Trumpeter, plus the photo etched parts of Eduard (mainly for the engine hood and interior), resin wheels and lenses from SKP.

The crane is a super kit of Z+Z Exclusive Models, consisting of several Resin parts in good quality and a huge fret of photo etched parts for the smaller details and for the jib (which needs to be soldered).

I have planned the painting in black (chassis, front fenders), orange (cab, engine hood) and dark green (crane) ...

















I hope that you like it ...

Cheers
Micha

How was the fit of the parts?
That crane is hiding in my stash too .....
Still need to decide which truck I want to base it on
/ Robin

Hi Robin,
the fitting is good. The resin parts need some cleaning as usual, but the fitting is very fine. The PE-parts are good as well, but it is necessary to solder the jig - otherwise it will not be very sold I think
Cheers
Michael

I do love it.Very interesting and different.Can't wait to see the end,will be following.

Always love a good crane!

What is your favourite recipe?


/ Robin

Hello everyone.

I have added some wiring and the last parts so that I could start the painting next ...









Wish you all a Merry Christmas already !!!

Cheers

Micha

Hello,

some first paintings done ....

black, orange, green ...








Cheers
Micha

Hello everybody.

the ZiL-157 with crane of the manufacturer Bleichert is finished.

The base kit of the ZiL is a Trumpeter kit, the Conversion-Kit of the crane is of Z+Z Exclusive Modell.

Further resin wheels of SKP, as well as some wiring is used ...















I hope that you like it.

Cheers

Nice paintjob and the right, in my opinion, amount of dirt and grease on the crane.
For the base I could imagine a less smooth sand surface, maybe some depressions caused by heavy wheels driving across, maybe some wheel patterns et.c.
I would also use a slightly heavier/stronger rope, maybe also longer rope to get a more vertical angle of the ropes when lifting. Well, if you are basing the vignette on some Russian YouTube clip where they drop a heavy box onto something fragile then the rope looks Exactly right
I'll save the images for when I build my own Bleichert crane, I'm leaning towards a ZiL 130 chassis but nothing is decided yet. I'm getting inspiration from this:


/ Robin