HI-Rail Mercedes Maintence unit out on the tracks. Wall Repair

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So here's the story two maintenance workers are out on a rail bridge working to repair some broken Walls, one worker is down on one end loosening up the gravel and getting all the junk out from under the wall barricade so they can change it out while the maintenance supervisor is checking out the second wall barricade that they need to change when he looks down and notices some liquor bottles and a human skull ,so he's now calling in on the radio to the home base to send out the popo. I have to say this was a project that went a lot longer than I thought and a very different direction, but I had a lot of fun doing it. Originally this was just going to be a high rail maintenance truck but then as I was building it more and more ideas came to my mind first was of course adding the high rail Wheels which are from I'm going to say an HO scale train with the rest of the doodads scratch build to somewhat replicate what I can find online. Then I decided that I wanted to add the knuckle boom. So I started by extending the chassis and adding in the knuckle boom kit from Italeri Official Account and it just so happens that it comes with a chassis extension that I was able to use instead of having to scratch build one. I then decided to detail the interior work box by building a tool slide out and a welding cart slide out as well. This kit actually started as a Revell fire truck from back in the '90s. Hey don't forget to check out the cab interior there's lots of fun stuff in there from McDonald's to a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH ton of paperwork, just like any good maintenance vehicle.I then had this brilliant idea that a high rail truck needs to live on railroad tracks thankfully my buddy Scott T Adams Sr. Was able to find me a set of railroad tracks and Base from the AMT The general. And of course once I started that a diorama was something that needed to happen so I went in and added concrete barriers train track ballast I had a figure that looked like a maintenance supervisor pointing so I added him in once the walls were in I decided it needed to be super filthy or not super filthy but dirty added a whole lot of weathering products and then graffiti. And of course like anyone that's built to diorama before as you sit and look at it you think of more and more things to add so if you look closely near the knuckle boom you'll see that the maintenance worker is actually pointing at a skull and some liquor bottles laying on the side of the tracks and the other worker is down on the other side preparing to tear out one of the damaged walls. So we're done no more looks great, nope needed more so then I decided you know the wall looks good but what would be better is some chain link fence. You know, safety first.

Edited June 17 by Model Builders Mafia

[BK9300]

This is exceptional, Adam - what an awesome build!  My eye keeps going deeper into the detail inside the truck body, to the tool boxes, etc.  Wonderful work!

[nyguy]

Incredible  build. Digging all the detail.

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3 hours ago, nyguy said:

Incredible  build. Digging all the detail.

THank You very much

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13 hours ago, BK9300 said:

This is exceptional, Adam - what an awesome build!  My eye keeps going deeper into the detail inside the truck body, to the tool boxes, etc.  Wonderful work!

THank you, Keep looking, there is alot to see.

[dave branson]

Awesome build

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

That's awesome. The wanted poster, the water bottle, etc. Thanks for posting the details. 

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20 minutes ago, Perspect Scale Modelworks said:

That's awesome. The wanted poster, the water bottle, etc. Thanks for posting the details. 

You are very welcome. There is a newspaper also, I believe  talking about Godzilla on the tracks, but I went overboard on the weathering and it kind got lost

[Dragline]

Crazy cool. And compact considering all that's there. And the cab clutter. Well done Sir!

[ChrisR]

Awesome diorama!

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2 hours ago, ChrisR said:

Awesome diorama!

thank you

[Pete75]

Mind-blowing work. Quite brilliant. I'll be coming back to these photos for some time to reference/study!

[slusher]

Fantastic work amazing detail!