~1:12 Miller Century M100 Rotator wrecker

[dremu]

Now, what to put in the boxes? I opted to take some guidance from the 1:1 above, which I'm sure is a Miller showcase of everything they sell and not necessarily a realistic example of an actual truck. A good start though.



Front has a printed rack to hold a variety of shackles and sheaves, courtesy of AliExpress. Ignore the blue tape on the left, holding in the door handle whilst it dries.



This one holds various underlift attachments. While the underlift and chain attachment proper are modelled on the real article, the axle attachments are made to fit the various axles and kingpins on my trucks and trailers, so the thing can actually pull the Frobeliner. This really is why I made the Frobe ... so I can justify a tow truck to pull it =))



Getting ahead of myself though.



Other shelves hold straps, gotta have straps in different lengths. These also date back to when I made the HEMTT, and are ribbon from the craft store, hotmelt, and heatshrink.

I do not like hotmelt.



This is a printed rack to hold chains, again, AliExpress. There was a time seemed like I was getting tiny packages from China on a daily basis.



Another shelf has endless straps, aka hair scrunchies from Walmart. Didn't have to go to China for those. Obvi since they stretch they're just for looks, but a man's gotta accessorized his truck.



Did have a devil of a time making chokers though. Tiny wire rope and crimps aren't a problem, comes with the winch servos and I'd switched them out to synthetic (the aforementioned nylon string.) But finding thimbles for those was a challenge. They don't need to be structural, but they're too small to print (I tried.)

Eventually found some on McMaster which worked, with a little bit of trimming. Of interest was the fact that McMaster emphasized the ZERO WLL NOT FOR STRUCTURAL LOAD BEARING. I mean, at that size, dafuq?



And a combination of printed parts and music wire from the hardware store, and they can mount up under the crane as on the 1:1