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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-23T00:04:46

This IS absolutely wonderful! I also can't wait to see it finished!!

Statistics: Posted by CoolFireTrucks — Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:04 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-20T20:36:47

Absolutely wonderful work. Love the detail and I can't wait to see the finished product.

Thanks for sharing

Statistics: Posted by CCFR-45 — Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:36 pm

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-17T01:54:06

At least the hydraulic tubes for the radial outriggers and the work lights with the electric wires, attached to the outrigger supports.

There are only minor steps left, such as the attachment of the final cables and tubes, the door locks and the last decals.
But not really much interesting to post, since you will see them with the completed truck anyway.
So with this post i conclude the building progress of this project.

I will post the finished truck within the next two weeks (depending my work scedule ).

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:54 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-17T01:31:20

Next was the completion of the Boom control panel on the turntable.

and the tubes for the hydraulic support of the telescope boom as well as a small cover to hide the big screw that holds the turntable in place (this part you won´t find on the real truck ).

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:31 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-17T01:21:56

Then i built new front rims to get a closer match to real ones.

And i finished the front bumper. The decals will be added at the very end.

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:21 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-17T01:08:33

Next were the grating parts on top of the rear bumper and on the surface of the rear compartments.

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:08 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-17T01:03:03

A bit more time consuming was the cretion of the scene lights which are placed on the rear of the truck.
Those were build out of clear plastic pins, styrene tubes, a 1x2mm square styrene rod and very thin wire. Then i painted them with a "molotow liquid chrome" pen.

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:03 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-17T00:53:31

then i created the parts which are on the pipe system, but i have no idea how they´re called

I even build the small position lights, which are attached to the rear lights.

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:53 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-17T00:41:39

Next i simply used parts from the Engine 68 remainings such as the pump presure meters and add them to the front compartments.

followed by a little more detail to the cable drum of the telescope boom

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:41 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-17T00:28:52

With the rebuild of the stabilizers the main "bodywork" was done and only the small details remained.
Allthough "only the small details" remained, they were quite a few.
And i think these building steps wouldn´t be very interesting to explain in detail part by part .
So the following steps are more of a "fast forward" version.
One major change was to add the reflective markings to the truck, which followed next.

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:28 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-15T11:42:04

This was followed by drilling small holes into the stabilizers to hold the slide outs in position.

To finish the construction i created small top covers out of 0,5mm styrene sheets and secured the stabilizers with super glue onto the s-shape rod.
Finally i put the paintcoat on, done!
I my opinion it locks far better than before

Ok that´s all for today, the rest follows tomorrow

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:42 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-10-15T11:28:44

Hi everybody
finally the last update on the building progress!
Due to the amount of steps i may not finish everything today, but the rest will follow tomorrow

Those who followed this build from the very beginning, know that i wasn´t to pleased with the vertical stabilizers for this truck .
So i finally came up with a far better version of them
Out of rectangular brass tubes and a brass u-shape rod and brass square rods i created the new vertical stabilizers.
First i cut the four stabilizer casings and filed a small gap in them. Then i cut out a square piece of the end of the u-shape rods.
This way i created the brackets for the stabilizer casings.

Four square brass pieces in a smaller diameter were also cut to fit into the stabilizer casing as slide outs.

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:28 am

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-07-30T13:13:56

JoeO wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:00 pm
Good job on fixing that front end

Thank you

And realising that the shot of the front end of the ten truck from the beginning doesn´t really show the difference, here is a closer shot of my other ten truck.

For comparison, i also attached shots of Engine 273 and 21, which clearly show, that code 3 could´ve done better on the ten truck by simply using they´re old molds/parts

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:13 pm

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-07-28T12:00:19

Good job on fixing that front end

Statistics: Posted by JoeO — Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:00 pm

Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

2019-07-28T11:54:22

Followed py painting this section. And the last picture shows how the front looks like now, hope ypu like it
That´s all for this update, but the next one will follow soon!

Statistics: Posted by Hazmat — Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:54 am