This is a model of the world´s largest hydraulic shovel, the Terex RH 400, and has a weight of some 980 metric tons. The model consists of about 2,300 parts and it took Holm 230 hours to make it. Holm says, "After such a work I´m just not brave enough to weather to models and so I must tell everybody that it is always their first operating hour in the mine when I took the photographs." And as you may remember from the pics from the Fulda Meet, Holm normally presents his models as a Mining Equipment Exhibition where they are always shining clean.

Posted June 16, 2004