{"id":7406,"date":"2025-12-13T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:28:28","slug":"3d-designed-7mm-scale-yard-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7406","title":{"rendered":"3D Designed 7mm scale Yard Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wow, it&#8217;s been a while since I last updated this topic. I confess that I have done very little 3D drawing since March mainly things that I intended to machine and modelled them to make working drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&nbsp;have done so little that when a friend whom I had drawn a number of items in the past asked me to draw up a GNR axle box and horn guide I had no idea how to go about it. Fast forward to a week ago and I decided that after drawing up the side control spring for the 8F that I needed more practice and to relearn how to draw in Fusion beyond the basics. Having recently messed about with gears and I had recreated some gears for my Medley Models Cravens Crane, I decided that I would attempt to draw up a hand crane similar to the one that I built some years ago from a Wagon and Carriage Works kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&nbsp;wanted to go a step further than I have previously where I have built up a design as one entity and create components which would eventually create an assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The W&amp;C kit is designed to make either a wagon mounted mobile crane or a ground\/plinth mounted yard crane. I have drawn up parts for both and started to assemble the Yard crane variant first as being the slightly simpler of the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a bit of a learning curve but an enjoyable one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-2.jpg 595w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-2-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-2-315x300.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-4.jpg 608w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-4-300x274.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-4-329x300.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-3.jpg 831w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-3-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-3-768x551.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-3-418x300.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane.jpg 677w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-300x253.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Partial-Assembly-of-Yard-Crane-356x300.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it&#8217;s been a while since I last updated this topic. I confess that I have done very little 3D drawing since March mainly things that I intended to machine and modelled them to make working drawings. I&nbsp;have done so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7406\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion-360"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions\/7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}