Brownhoist Derrick

Stony has done it again!

He took the basis for his Bucyrus WB150 Crane and made modification to turn it into a Brownhoist Derrick (crane) www.shapeways.com/model/511354/brownhoist-mow-crane-zscale.html

He is definitely the Shapeways Master!!!

Thank you Stony!

John Bartolotto

Oh this is so cool..I know what I will do when I get mine!!
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Yup- Good one Stony!!

I'm glad I held off on the first cranes now I can also get a couple of these. Someone mentioned a $19. import charge. Is this fee a flat rate or a percentage?

Keep up the great stuff

Thanks

Tom

Fee is based on value of the shipment in Canada, too bad I left PA.

not quite the way it appears. In Canada only Canada Post can import things into Canada and process it through customswithout a broker being involved as per Postal Union rules all other importations require a broker to clear it through Canada customs UPS it is own broker and they charge a fee to clear things through customs and a fee if they have to pay the tax or duty due on the shipment to the government on your behalf and then collect it from you on delivery and this is the same for all couriers o freight forwarders. So the only way around most of these fees is to have a brokerage account with UPS and then they have your credit card and because they do not have to put funds out on your behalf it gets a bit cheaper, but you have to bring in alot of stuff each month to rate an account. The post office is the way to go max 8.00 bucks msx fee to clear a shipment and collect tax and or duty if applicable. So until Shapeways will use the post office and regular airmail for shipping it gets over priced very quickly when they try and ship each piece individually via UPS this is courier service and it gets out of hand very quickly if shipper and receiver are not in the same country or customs zone.

cheers Garth

Somewhere in the cobb webbs of my mind, I thought model trains were exempt from custom charges. Thought it odd at the time.. Maybe that is the USA and not for accessories.??? And just a pigment of my imagination.
And maybe the customs Inspecter I had was a model railroader

In Germany toys are not subject to customs, but they could be taxed I believe. Trouble is if you look on fine print of Z scale trains, there is something to the effect that THIS IS NOT A TOY OR FOR ANYONE UNDER 14 blah blah ACT OF CONGRESS blah blah, soooo. I always swear up and down it is a TOY train but you never know. Dont help either when they turn the little engine box over and see the MSP price printed on the back. Kinda hard to blow smoke up their hats when they see the price of an engine.
My Frau had a HECK of a time with the when I sent her a stuffed toy monkey when I was downrange. Thing was 6 foot tall!

That's some Monkey!!!!

Soitenly worth a try. Might save a lot of modelers pieces of eight.