Thank you too. Eh pierluigi, I sent you a pm. Did you get it? It was a question about your fifth wheel.

OK replay
ciao
piero

Somebody know if the situation made by me, means the loader inside to a work shop is realistic or is better to display the loader in a road or field workshop?
somebody know where I can find some reference pictures.
T.Y.
piero

I really do not thing it is unrealistic. Everyone is going to tell you differently. The truth is there are different scenerios for every situation, regardless if someone thing it doesn't seem right. Yes, I have seen front loaders in a workshop type situation. So it is accurate. Heck, you can have it outside the workshop, it will still look realistic. I say keep it the way you have it. There are many ways to pose this and none is unrealistic.

Shop or field are both reasonable places for the scenario, but if I may offer one point, if the vehilce is inside, then there shouldn't be too much dirt on the hub of the missing wheel, should there? The wheel contact points should be quite clean. Other than that it's a good representation of a maintenance shop. I worked in an open pit mine maintenance shop for a semester and it has the right feel.

Now, don't forget to weather the concrete floors a LOT. These surfaces take a real beating and the shop I worked in would replace it's floors pretty much every other year because they would be cracked, and chipped so badly. The floors are also very, very stained with dirt, oil, hydraulic fluid, etc.

HTH

Paul

Stick with the indoor theme---if outside in my experience (ex REME ) it is going to be loads of work with the grass , foliage and dirt---usually the "garage" was a big cam-net slung between 4 trees and draped round the sides with a black/brown lining to kill the light at night on the hardest piece of ground available.....if we were lucky a barn ...
So not a lot would be seen ---( the way my stuff comes out --mmm!! --now there's a thought--hide it.. )
From what shown --stay in the dry -- looks a very nice piece of "pure "scratching ------- Will you put it in the ACUTR campaigne ---it deserves to be there.........
aye
BARV
(GOSMG)

ps....remenber the axle stands --- ram seals can blow and if resting on bucket --- --OOOPS!!

I've seen Equipment Dirtier than that Brought into a Shop without hitting a washbay first................ I don;t then that Mud is too unreasonable for a "minor maint. issue" ........ but the Concrete could use more weathering.....

PierLuigi
You really did a great job
Question the tube connected with to the airfilter is it a flexible straw ??

So good job please more picture ,this desearve a MOM display
Cheers
seb

I can't speak Italian here, but I will write it:
BIUTIFUL!

(it's the Italian pronuciation for "beautiful")

At the end I decide to display the loader outside.

I don't go deeply into it, because what I want is that the person looking must apreciate the loader not the stuff all around, I just add few pieces to let understand that the loader after a city battle is now under repair, oil changing, new wheels and more to make it ready for the next ........

Seb: The air pipe is plastic evergreen cuttet to obtained a elbow 90°

Giacomo if I can finish I want to display the loader at Euroroma this caming may
I will post the work progress this italian afternoon

Pierluigi
My question concern the tube that look like a Mc Donalds straw, is it the case ? (Connected to the air filter)

And concerning the wheels, do you have progress pictures or did you make it ?

Waiting for the pictures

Seb

Seb, you are right, (not undestand before your question)
I use that straw.
Any way you can see more picture in my album.
The wheels are the only material that was not scratch built.
Here the start of all the work.

ciao
piero

I'm curious pierluigi, how did you get the right dimension to scale drawing?

PierLuigi
Where did you get the blue print from the vehicle ??
Cheers
Seb

It was in my mind from very long time, like the D9 armoured.
"Sailing" on the caterpillar web I find the brochure of the loader, print it, there is a page where there are all the dimension in mm.
I traslate in 1:35 scale and with the help of fotocopy machine I riproduce a copy of the side and top wiev enlarged until reach the 1:35 scale.
After I copy on the tick paper more or less 1 mm, that you can see on the picture.
After a long work of cutting and gluing.

piero

Thi is the second solution, display on field.
Few things are missing, hose pipe and ground painting not yet finished




piero

Pier Luigi
Ok really good display, the spare tire is maybe missing any comment ??
Good dio

Cheers
seb

Yes not found in my spare box, from this I decide to simulate a minor overhaulig.
It's hard to me to make one even by casting with resin.
ciao
piero

So here I am, these are the picture on the final position of the loader.
Comment as usual are apreciated.
see you nex work.

This is nice but I liked the other scenerio better. Anyhow, it's a darn fine piece you have done. You should be proud.