A question Mike. Do you work from actual plans or do you go out and photograph some of these units you model? I’ve never even seem one of these crawlers before, course I live in the middle of nowhere so…

i search the internet for interesting items and i read the avaible free magazines with crane information..
this one i found searching the internet for mini crawler cranes…
i found out of the mini crawlers by reading the american lift and cranes magazine..
many of the suppliers of cranes also adds the schematics of the model.
but mostly i work out of pictures found on the internet..
i live in danemark and its a small country so i cant find thes things here..

Great answer. Thanks for sharing your process with us.