The few hours I've been able to get into the basement in the past week, have been spent mostly on non-steel tasks - more track laying - decoder installs - starting some scenery - and generally planing things. I did pick up the Walther's Heavy Duty Crane kit for the electric melt shop. I actually have three of these on order for elsewhere in the plant. For the price you get a basic crane assembly that will save a lot of scratchbuilding hours. It is, as are most Walther's kits, slightly incomplete and under-detailed. After building the model pretty much per the instructions, I've started to detail the crane using mostly styrene shapes. In the picture you can see the drive motor, transmission, and drive shaft that was added to the one side of the crane. I still need to add the electrical contacts for the trolleys along this side and then a walkway on the other. These simple things add some "mass" to the model. By the way - these ideas are mostly from Dean Freytag's Cyclopedia.
A second picture shows a slightly blurry ladle from the electric furnace kit being upgraded with a refractory lining, new trunnions, and a tilting bracket.
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