Old Wombat's Crab - FINISHED - Pic's pg.7

[Rick Lowe]

What a brilliant, brilliant model, concept, and back story.
It is difficult to believe that it is not RW. 

+1 Agree  - and something similar to it should be RW!

[tigercat]

Amazing . Definitely something to be avoided if the world goes Maximum Overdrive

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, gentlemen!


I've no idea what I'm going to do with the Obj. 279 turret but I do have a vague idea for the Astaco track unit ... that doesn't involve any kind of tank turret.

[NARSES2]

I've no idea what I'm going to do with the Obj. 279 turret

Mount it atop a block of polystyrene or whatever they use nowadays and paint it up as a fixed frontier defence position.

[Nick]

This is the first time I've seen a model that will need a "Beware of sharp blade" sign! 

It looks really good. I walked through a forest in the Lakes some years back and saw a machine very similar with a huge cutting grab arm. Watching it in action was scary.
It just grabbed a tree, cut it at the base and turned it over to trim all the branches off before dropping the trunk onto a trailer. Worthy of a James Bond sequence.

[rickshaw]

The US Army during the Vietnam war got LeTourneau to built a couple of forest harvesters which were never, as far as I know, deployed.  They were trialled in Florida.  They were equipped with massive hollow steel wheels for flotation and pusher arms.   The Monstrous Tree Crushers the US Military Used to Level Vietnam's Forests

[AeroplaneDriver]

Very cool!  Nice to see something soooo different.   

[Old Wombat]

Thanks heaps, Nick!

[Wardukw]

It's a mutant..it's horrible to look at..I absolutely love it 😁 ..as a working concept it's more than workable ..it's 100 percent doable..ya nailed it Guy and since Object 279 was ment to with stand a nuclear blast a forest fire is like a fart in hurricane..top marks matey 
Now that I joined Flickr all I gotta do is figure out how to get pics from there to here I can show you guys what I've been doing.

[DazzD]

CFS?... My neck of the woods 

Great build mate, looks great!

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, Dazz!

Good to see another South Australian join the ranks!

[Old Wombat]

Good grief!


Sorry for not replying earlier, Wardukw!

Thanks heaps, mate!

[Wardukw]

No need for apologies Guy..it's not like I would have noticed at all lol
Hell I got out of hospital this morning ..no fears there..just my eyes went blurry has hell couple of days back and they were worried about the head trauma and the cracks..turns out I was just having a reaction to these new meds I got for the head aches..yup the head aches go away and so does my eye site lol oh well ..all good now 😁

[Old Wombat]

Glad to hear it, mate!

I may have a few kits I can boost your way, too. I'll have a look & see what's surplus to requirements (SMWBO would say all of 'em but she's VERY wrong!).

[nighthunter]

(SMWBO would say all of 'em but she's VERY wrong!).

My ex-wife would say the same, but she's my ex and doesn't get a say anymore on my stash, lol! (Not the reason we divorced, and not going into why, here 😜)