No.32 Planters or plinths
This week I am sharing some thoughts on the excellent kit from Mike’s Models for the ex GWR Medium Yard Crane. I had a full set of instructions for constructing the crane but there was no mention of how to model a base for the crane. A Google Search highlighted a couple of results in this Parish but both acknowledged that the cranes had been assembled without instructions. There was a suggestion that the base should be circular. A search of my own books showed that the cranes at Lamborne and Tetbury had what looked like circular brick bases infilled with concrete. The brickwork for the Tetbury crane also had a circular steel band to hold the brickwork in place. My first attempt was to use two circles cut from 5mm thick balsa wood: Besides being rather untidy, my attempts at scaling from photographs was obviously wrong and these 40mm (10ft) diameter plinths were too small. Even when used for the little GEM crane there was nowhere...