Finnieston crane gets a mini makeover
Arran student Christian Pomeroy, who has been living and studying in Glasgow, has produced a luxury gift which is proving popular across the city in the run up to Christmas.
He has designed a tiny scale 1:1200 model of Glasgow’s famous Finnieston Crane. Although designed originally to fill a brief, the idea has turned heads and gained mileage at the Glasgow School of Art where it is now for sale in the GSA shop.
Christian’s model comes as a flat sheet of photo-etched brass in tracing-paper wrapping which is printed with concise instructions of how to construct the model. It requires no glue or scissors, the pieces simply press out and slot together with bendable tabs. Tweezers are suggested as being able to help with the construction. The finished model features a rotating jib and moveable block and tackle.
Christian is currently working on two further micro-models which at this stage are secret but which he hopes to make public sometime in the next few months.
The Finnieston Crane model is also available in The Shop of Interest in Argyll Street or online at www.theshopofinterest.co.uk/
Christian is in the masters year of his Product Design Engineering, a combined course between Glasgow University and GSA.
The Finnieston Crane is a disused giant cantilever crane near the SSE Hydro. It is no longer in working order, but is retained as a symbol of the city’s engineering heritage.
The crane was used for loading cargo, including steam locomotives, onto ships to be exported around the world. It is one of four such cranes which still stand on the River Clyde.