The construction of a Terex-Demag AC 350 hydraulic crane.

My first project .

For years I'm interested in everything that has to do with cranes.
About ten years ago I started building a Liebherr LTM 1800 from scratch.
It was going to be scale 1 to 25, for largest part made of brass.
During the construction I wanted to make it more realistic and install motors.
But as I got on I realized that the scale, my demand of details and my skill didn't go together.

The chassis and outriggers were made when I stopped.

A new start.

After some years and the birth of our son I decided it was time to make a new start.
For a long time I couldn't choose witch brand and type I wanted to build. It had to be a crane not small and something special.
On my journeys on the internet I saw the Demag AC 300/1.
The size of the crane was what I was looking for.
This type is available with a fly jib and that would give it an extra dimension when it was finished.

During or short after the Bauma the crane got a new type number, AC 350, now it was a real mid sized crane

In the beginning of 2002 I started to collect every bit of information I could find. Until late in the night I roomed the internet, but I found little. Some pictures of the earlier type but not of the type I wanted to build.

At that time Demag couldn't give me much help, only the picture they have on their site, thanks anyway.

On th way back from the show in Geldermalsen I bought the first parts, the tires, and the start was a fact.

The goal was to command as much functions as possible by Radio Control. A part of these functions will be, just as in reality, done with hydraulics. T be precise, the vertical part of the outriggers and the top cylinder. Other movements will be done by electromotors and servo's.

2003 has started good because Terranova from England send me some pictures and information. Demag send me a picture I didn't have.

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Until the last week of April I build the model from pictures and the PDF file from Demag.

But in the last week of April I went for holidays to the south of Germany, and of course to the Demag factory in Zweibrucken.
Sadly my contact person with Demag had no time to help me because of the preparations for the Intermat in France.
But I took a lot of pictures of the AC 350 from behind the fence.

These pictures I will NOT publish on the internet and use them only for myself to build the model.

This month I came in contact with Terex Demag and I received the first drawing (SSL), the first of many I hope.

Thank you very much for this help!

If you have more information or pictures, please let me know!!