beelzibus Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 Hello all. For an MOC I'm building, I need a two stage crane boom. The boom on 8421 would be fine in terms of overall length, and I like the operation of the second stage using the 31 long strings, however the 8421 boom is far too industrial looking externally, my boom needs to be 'panneled' if you get my meaning. Flat on all sides, top bottom and both verticals, radiused corners, skinned with bricks and slopes, tiles and plates, not technic liftarms. At least not on the outside. Ideal dimensions externally of 6 studs wide, 5 bricks tall. I can cope with one axle running outside of these dimensions, plus obviously its mountings in order to facilitate it's workings. So far after about 10 hours of tinkering I'm struggling. All the well known trucks (Sariel's, Grazi's, M.Longers) have single stage booms with just two sections. I must have a twin stage with three sections. Does anyone have any bright ideas, or can point me in the direction of any Brickshelf or MOC pages galleries. Quote
dikkie klijn Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 You could consider the boom of my liebherr LTM 1150. Tho it is Industrial, it has a 3 stage boom and it is longer (shortening is never a problem is it?). (Image is a link to the Set) The dimensions of the boom are 5 by 6 and not the 6 by 5 you would like. Also using bricks the boom gets very heavy. Do you have a photo of what you have for now? Quote
efferman Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 maybe this or this are something for you. or do you want a box which slides in the bigger one? Quote
Bricktrain Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 not quite what you want but may give you some ideas crane Quote
beelzibus Posted October 2, 2011 Author Posted October 2, 2011 Thanks for all the pointers people. I found something I can modify here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=429975 Thanks again Andy. Quote
Bricktrain Posted October 3, 2011 Posted October 3, 2011 actually I had come up with a similar idea this afternoon Quote
beelzibus Posted October 10, 2011 Author Posted October 10, 2011 actually I had come up with a similar idea this afternoon great minds obviously think alike. I can't use the technic panels as they don't fit my colour scheme, I managed to skin wokings in bricks though, so all good. Quote
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