Here you go Joe, a few pics with the plywood stick/boom/bucket,it does look a little better seeing it all together...LOL
I did changed the size of the cab slightly and I think it looks better now...still a big cab....the full scale cab is almost 7 feet long, just over 5 feet wide and just under 7 feet tall and it's weight is almost 1 ton....yikes....
Really trying to get this model to look like the real deal as much as possible without getting to detailed but some details and dimensions just have to be right in order to get it to look right and do this big machine justice, but building something with limited info is a challenge. Even though I usually try and build a simple versions of the real machine most times trying to keep a build simple gets complicated...go figure...