Post of progress of the crane.
Colors are still placeholders
#Progress post 1#
As you can see I finished the jib, made a trolley and hook, added the hoist and a lot of other stuff. I also made the counterjib with the counterweights. Also advertising panels obviously advertising me!
Trolley and hook work
Part count about 1k Don't worry, mutliple versions with less parts will be available
I was generous and the max lifting capacity is higher than it should be
Hook position indicator has returned!
There will be no detailed cab.. too boring and will add unecessary parts.
Tuning the slewing of the crane rn (rotating)
Shameless advertising.
Oh yeah also a suggestion of a minigame type thing for it was made so I'll try to come up with something like that.
50k lbs
50k lbs on end of the jib, would not be possible IRL
The fuselage inlets which I used to make this angled panel does not have the same angle on the front and back so I had to add some overlapping parts really quick, kina visible if you look really close but that's the price of no artifacts.
Pretty much finished, colors have also been adjusted
True @Minecraftpoweer
@CRJ900Pilot Haha I want to rush anyways, always happens when I make stuff, the end is always really boring.
It’s fine I can wait. I don’t want you to rush @Minecraftpoweer
@CRJ900Pilot alrighty, I hope to finish my crane tomorrow, so I can probably not do any work then. Unless I finish my crane quickly.
That sounds good. I can do structural stuff but I can’t do winches to save my life. And consider it a little colab, you should get credit @Minecraftpoweer
@CRJ900Pilot if you want you can do the jib and I'll do the winches and whatever, you get full credit.
From the google search I did, I couldn’t find anything. I’ll get off my lazy butt and make my own lol @Minecraftpoweer
I didn’t dive that deep, but I’ll keep looking @Minecraftpoweer
@CRJ900Pilot That's a pain, I usually go by blueprints and precise measurments, this one I based of a real crane with a lot of spesifications.. I don't even know what the bottom looks like on this.. are there no blueprints for just the crane?
Using the plane as a reference (35 ish feet wingspan and length, 15 ish height) the crane should be about 40 feet long and 40 feet tall, and then 3 feet wide. These measurements are based on the cranes’s current position, so lengths/heights would vary as the crane moved @Minecraftpoweer
@CRJ900Pilot wait what about the scale? How am I supposed to know how large each thing is?
@CRJ900Pilot oh now I see some more, looks like you can raise and lower it using cables on the back, still very simple.
@CRJ900Pilot It's very simple to make though, you only need to make a jib that rotates and then a working hook.
Also here
Here is one example, it’s not a full picture though. I’ll try to find a better one @Minecraftpoweer
@CRJ900Pilot Thanks, could you link me to a pic or something and I might consider it as a smaller post.
Looks great! Maybe you could try an aircraft crane seen on WWII destroyers. It would allow for some pretty cool ship builds
@BeryllCorp thanks
this is incredible!
@vcharng maybe...
@Minecraftpoweer I know what you meant, just saying that "super colorful" version would look hilarious lol.
@vcharng Haha no thanks, I meant that I color the parts a "placeholder" color so that the parts that are yellow now only need to be adjusted to the right yellow later without having to paint anything, only change the color.
"Colors are still placeholders"
Hey I got an idea, how about you make a rainbow-colored version beside the "normal" version? It's gonna be hilarious.