My Crane truck

[kdz76]

Right before Christmas I was walking through northern tool getting some stuff I needed for work I ran across the bruder crane truck and decided to pick it up. I didn't know if I would tare it apart or just leave it sitting on the shelf So this morning as i was sifting through all my old parts that were put in boxes 3 or 4 years ago I ran across some frame rails a built rear end a built front end and a transmission so I started to lay it all out and for some reason this went together pretty easy. It runs and drives the crane is not operational but im ok with that for now. The only things I want to finish up is going to be a functioning work box on one side, a dummy work box on the other to hide the battery, cab paint color change, and a rear bumper. Once all that gets done then maybe ill think about wiring LED's

[TRUCKMAKER]

This will make a nice truck, I've got it on my Bruder to do list but I have 5 ahead of it. Does the crane look like it could be made operational with out a lot of trouble?

[dabears]

Looks cool!!

[kdz76]

Thanks oztruck and Dabears

Thanks Truckmaker in response to your questions I am sure someone could make it functional very easy but right now for me its beyond my skill and knowledge to make it full function. I have not been building anything but old volkswagens for the past couple years

[Izzy]

Looks good - I like parts truck builds - always fun!

[kdz76]

Here is another update. I saved up all my updates till was out town and can not build only sit here admire everyone else's builds and update all the small things i got done.

Decided that the King cab was not suited for this truck so dug out an old Knight day cab I built and did a swap




Also was able to figure out a way to hide the battery on this one as well



I really like the way it looked so went out to the store and got some paint. I just wish I had picked up the right color now I have it on the list to change the paint again



Now I also need to find a new bumper think I am just going to go with a stock knight hauler bumper as I plan to modify it a bit to accept a shackle or 2 and a sling to hold the crane hook

[glorydays24]

This is a cool build for sure. I have to agree, the knight body look's better. Are you going to make the crane operational? I'll be watching this one.

Big John

[rc_farmer]

Very good choice of the knight cab, looks like a working truck.

[kdz76]

Thanks everyone.
I will try to figure out how to make it all R/C eventually just have to look into what is available for this type of application any help with pointing me in the proper direction would be great.

[MACK Daddy]

Nice start, Looks like everything fits pretty well

Alfy

[Diesel Demond]

yep the switch to the knight cab looks much better. cant waite to see what else you have in store

[FlyingBeagle]

You may have already seen this video, but making it fully functional can be done. This video inspired me to build one of these myself. So far all i have done is buy the Bruder Mack Crane truck. Yours is looking real good.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ3ye7z7B6A

[kdz76]

I havent looked into any video's on it but that is cool I will have to devote some time to finding out what might work for it

[kdz76]

well made another step on this one added a light kit changed the yellow to something a bit closer and added a separating stripe still have more I want to do just need to find the time and parts.

Here is where its at now

[Tamiya Cowboy]

Looks great nice work Keith..

[Stuff]

yeah the knight hauler cab with the stripe is just perfect!

[Diesel Demond]

wow looks real good. the paint and black stripe really make i all jive together .

[sassgrunt]

You might consider this aluminum bumper, as you could drill & tap it to bolt shackles onto. I bought one just because I thought it would stand up better to my bad driving than the stock plastic one. It fits well and looks good.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aluminum-Hop...item3a7e430bea

[BRICKNICK]

This truck looks awesome, just on detail I would change is that you need the black pinstripe to separate the yellow and white on the cab of the crane also. It looks great on the cab of the truck but needs to continue on the crane. But this build looks great, nice job.

[kdz76]

Thanks everyone I am having fun with it.

I have a stock bumper coming but may look into that aluminum one later thanks for the link Sassgrunt

BrickNick you are right and I planned on adding the stripe to the crane tomorrow