Bruder Skid Steer Conversion

[motocrawler]

I have been really digging (no pun intended) doing these Bruder conversions, I am so impressed that with a little will and good equipment how functional these models can become. This time around I am doing a skid steer conversion...this was probably the hardest conversion I have done to date, mainly because of the size constraint of the model.

Step 1:
Cut out the back area for the the boom lift servo:





Step 2:
Make the bucket curl automation, this proved to be extremely difficult because of the various pivot points and size constraint. It was very hard to get a position where the bucket would curl all the way down and up: