Here’s some more eye candy. I’ve got the two lower hoists almost finalized. Still waiting on a couple more images from Ryan to get some of the piping detail more accurate. Right now a lot of it is my imagination running wild. Getting the angles of departure for the ammo trunks that go up to the the Upper Handling Room was difficult and could be wrong. I took the angle directly from the pictures taken by Ryan of the sides of the more vertical one. The tilted one, is more of a guess. I’ve asked Ryan for a direct side shot of both sides so I could confirm the angularity and the piping details.
I think they’re too tall. Ryan measured them at 6 feet or so, but with the base I made it seems to high.
These units with all their detailed glory with sit on the port side wall of the magazine and have their backs to the viewing public in the way that I’ve envisioned the display. Ryan I are discusing how else to display it so both front and back details will be viewable. One possibility is having the back as a mirror. Another would be displaying it where all sides can be viewed. To be decided.
Next up are the hydraulic pumps on steel stands which are much more pedestrian that these things were… and… they’re both the same. Only diffirence is where they lie vis a vis that hoist themselves.