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WOW!!!!!! Awesome work Greg!
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Excellent work, that looks amazing!
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Quite an improvement !
Well done !
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Great job, Greg. You managed to take a very plain model and make it into something special. The attention to detail is amazing. Also I'm glad you kept it as an O&K instead of converting to something else. Mike
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Great job
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WOW. Now that is something a little different for you. Fine job mister.....    Ken
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I'm generally a fan of your work, but this one tasks me a bit. The railings and hydraulic lines look fantastic though!
You do realize what's going to happen the first time the boom is raised, right?
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Thank you all for the compliments. I appreciate them. Weserhutte - I made sure during the build process that the railings on the boom are clear of the body railings. I know it looks like they will hit in the photos, but they are clear. Greg
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Greg: How do you paint the separate colors? After you paint, do you reassemble?. I'm trying to figure how your coverage of all the parts gets painted. It's unreal. Your gifted. CAW
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Thanks Craig. Yes, each part is sanded, hung with wire, cleaned, primed and painted separately. Then after the paint is nice and dry I re-assemble. After that I touch up any pins, pin caps etc Greg
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I really like how you added the pilot tubing on the end caps. Really a top job. 6090 - > RH400 next?
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Daaaamn, that was a lot of work, great job!
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Greg: To make sure I'm understanding, you are painting all that tubing AFTER it's on the boom? If so, how do you get the coverage underneath, sideways...etc. Your work is out of this world. Do you keep it or sell it? Craig
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Craig - That is correct. I do all of the piping and then paint right over top. It can be tricky to get good coverage but I just hold the can about 8-10 inches from the pieces and let the paint mist onto the surface. This combined with turning the can in multiple angles gets nice coverage. I wish I did keep the models that I build. I only have 3 models in my collection that I have custom built (and 2 of them were models that I bought back from collectors selling their collections) Greg
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Greg,
again a situation of "when good craftmanship is almost to good to spray paint over it". The piping on the boom is genious. I'm not familiar with hydraulic shovel systems - are the valves mounted on the boom?
Another real nice feature of your custom are the tracks. Were did you find them?
Keep it rolling, both thumbs up!
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325cl wrote:Weserhutte - I made sure during the build process that the railings on the boom are clear of the body railings. I know it looks like they will hit in the photos, but they are clear.
Greg
What I'm seeing has nothing to do with the handrails. If you just raise the boom completely I'm confident you'll see. Mr. Scholz wrote:Another real nice feature of your custom are the tracks. Were did you find them? It looks like he used the BYMO Komatsu PC8000 tracks for some reason.
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This is fantastic. Great modelmaking skills.
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Looks great!!!!
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