I might as well ask for them too BiL

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Lima is now part of Hornby International - lima.hornbyinternational.com/ - I don't know if they have re-introduced the Piggy-packer crane

tomustang Wrote:V900 Caterpillars and Kalmar Forklifts are still in use. Best thing about these two is you can use the Walthers Kalmar Kit to make them

I thought it might be an interesting side-project making a CAT V900 while waiting for the scans. I studied prototype pictures and came to the conclusion that a 100% correct CAT V900 cannot be made from the Kalmar kit. I decided to go for a less correct CAT, so all Caterpillar fetishists may not read further. I sacrificed one of my Kalmar kits and chopped everything that is not needed for the CAT. Had to narrow the fenders too. The original Kalmar part is on the right, the altered part on the left side. Cut apart the rear also (not indicated).


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Then I added some homemade stuff.
red is stock
white is styrene
brown/black is from my scrap box
grey is putty ( lots of )


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Wow! Jens! That's some trick scratch-bashing!

It's just after Oh Nine Hundred Hours on Saturday morning. [I know it's Saturday because they just said so on the radio ] The coffee has finished brewing. I have my L&NE mug in hand. I'm beginning to feel almost human again. I'll sit down with the printer/scanner/copier and review the doumentation pages referencing how to use this new device of mine to scan stuff.

The scan should probably total about 10 pages or so ...

This should be a real adventure.

And, yes, Master Tom ... I will email a set of scanned pages to you as well ...
If there is anyone else who absolutely must have this information, speak up now! :hey:

P5se Camelback Wrote:Wow! Jens! That's some trick scratch-bashing!

I'll sit down with the printer/scanner/copier and review the doumentation pages referencing how to use this new device of mine to scan stuff.

Thanks, biL!
Take your time. As you see I dont suffer boredom.


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Jens,

That was quick, like how you weathered it.

Bruce

WOW, fantastic job!

You work as fast as Gary!

The quality of the work is amazing!

Got it BiL, thanks

Thank you for your encouraging comments, its appreciated.

P5se Camelback Wrote:Check your email for "Mi-Jack PiggyPacker - Installment #1"

biL,
I was not at home, when you sent the mails. Checked them this morning. Although they came in slowly they are all in now. Thank you very much !

SP1 Wrote:... I was not at home, when you sent the emails. Checked them this morning. Although they came in slowly they are all in now. Thank you very much !

There should have been NINE installments! I hope you got them all. If they came in slowly, the emails may have been too large ... in the future I will reduce the total size of email attachments to under 1.5Mb. That was the info I wanted to know when I emailed after the first one, but getting no feedback (except for Tom saying it had come in just fine on his I-Phone) and as I was beginning to get tired enough to want to retreat to the "Horizontal Clinic," I just built and sent the other eight ... building and sending all nine only took an hour. (A couple of them were just over 2 Mb ... that possibly taxed your email provider's download capability.)

Holy!!! hock: hock: hock:

Started it !

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If you think what you see is just a box... then you are absolutly right! Most (technical) models have a box somewhere which is a good starting point, all you have to do is adding parts - one after another - to that box. Its that simple.



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Looking good already