After many hours at my work bench , I’m finally done with this model. Your asking yourself…what is a kress carrier ? Well modern steel mills have to transport hot molten steel somehow,they either use hot metal freight cars or a Kress carrier ,sometimes they use both.
This project seemed to be a pain in the buttocks but it wasn’t ,in fact was very easy to build. Although I’m still working on painting objects…I suck painting anything.
Dragon river steels first Kress carrier is in service and fully ready to pour on the steel!!!
Very nice work, but you’ll have to brush up on your painting skills. One trip and that monster will need to be weathered, and after a few loads, you won’t be able to tell what colour it’s supposed to be. Seriously, though, you’ve created a very nice model of a unique piece of equipment. Excellent job.
I’ll have to work on the Hi-rail version…lol .But it is based on real machine found working in steel mills around the world. My next model from the Kress family ,will be a kress straddle slab carrier. A six wheel behemoth ,with elevated cab. I’ll have to find a pic and post it of straddle carrier.
Awesome vehicle! For your new project you might look at some military kits, or ones for European industrial equipment. Kibri has some very unusual looking industrial vehicle kits.
Yeah thats what I’ll have to do on this next model , way to many custom parts. Thanks for the idea using kibri kits ,although this machine has some very weird parts.
I own many kibri kits and am aware of there cost . If you khow ,where to shop for them ,the prices aren’t that steep …hehehehehee.
I’m thinking of building two machines at the same time ,one being the kress straddle carrier and the other a kress elevated pattet carrier.
This might be more than I can chew…nah.
