1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline

[9W Monighan]

Found a good deal on some brass sheet today. I wish I had bought all of my brass 6-7yrs ago. This stuff has gone thru the roof in past couple years. I think there's close to $800 in the boom alone and could have been at least half of that if bought sooner. I'll be working on the outer skin around the revolving frame soon. Lots of rivets to install.

[Jared]

Is the structure of the house steel? If it is, how do you keep it from rusting? Heated shop? Around here it's so wet unprotected steel doesn't take long before rust starts to form.

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by Jared

Is the structure of the house steel? If it is, how do you keep it from rusting? Heated shop? Around here it's so wet unprotected steel doesn't take long before rust starts to form.

All steel. I'm fortunate to be able to keep it in my heated shop. It does get some rust now and then. I make sure to mist it down with WD-40 once and a while. I haven't decided to paint the steel or use tool black to blacken some of the parts. The interior may get painted green and battleship gray. I'm going to experiment with green patina on the house sheet metal since the 1:1 I'm modeling was green with black boom and frame. I'm hoping the black patina on the boom and frame will have some brownish look to it so it will look old rusted and weathered. The boom is already darkening on it's own after a year of use.