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Here's two photos of an old wagon that I came across in Salt Lake City, Utah. The wagon is from some place in  Europe.

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Let's see your wagon photos.

Gordon Birrell

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Good reference photos, thanks.

Here's a series of photos of really nice wagon models photographed in 1945 for Life Magazine

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=eafb4168239b8fff&q=wagon%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwagon%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26ie%3DUTF-8%26tbs%3Disch:1#

Notice the photo of the builder, shows what a master craftsman can do with low tech on his kitchen table!

Dave

Thanks, Dave. That guy is a master craftsman scratch builder if there ever was one. Museum quality stuff.  They look like they are at least 1:12 scale maybe even a bit bigger. I wonder where they are now and what they are made out of. I count around 31 models. Just wonderful model building.

Gordon Birrell

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Those are fantastic. I seem to remember seeing a book about his models many years ago, maybe 45 or so, at the public library. The pictures sure did ring a bell. His wagon plans are available online at Wild Horse Books & Art (http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/collins.htm). The site also has many colour photos of his wagons.

Paul

Edit: From what I've been able to find out, the Oregon Historical Society (http://www.ohs.org/index.cfm) holds his collection.

How about a wagon sled.

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David

Hi all,
Here is a stage I found in the museum at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska last month.

Also a set of Big Wheels that were built right here in town in the 1920's used in the woods in the local area then put on  display for years.  About 5 years ago they were completely and professionally restored and are now used for display at events like the Logging Conference.

David that sled is just what I had in mind for this thread.

Paul What a great link. To see the collection in color just totally blows me away. I've got to order a plan or two just to see what there like.They are twice the size of my models, lots of room for detail.  

Gordon Birrell

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Thanks Rick for the photos.

Here's two wagons from Pipe Springs AZ



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Gordon Birrell

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Pipe Springs this links has a lot of old pioneer stuff. The masonry on the fort is very nice.

http://www.delange.org/PipeSprings2/PipeSprings2.htm

Gordon Birrell

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If anybody builds a wagon close to the caliber of the ones in Paul's link I'll publish an article in the Modelers' Annual. (Are you reading this, Gordon?) All these wagons and models are wonderful. -- Russ

Thanks for the links Paul!   I'd wondered what became of these models, really good to know they are still around and kept safe in a museum.    Looks like you found me another book I need to buy.    :D
Dave

Here's an old horse-drawn ore wagon on display at the mining museum in Tonopah, NV:

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And here's a link to more pics of this wagon:

http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Ore_Wagon.html (http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Ore_Wagon.html)

Thanks for the shot and the link to more info, Ray.
That's a very instructive thread. The wagon sled would make a great unusual model.

Interesting article on Watson Wagon that built drop bottom wagons like the one Ray shows. Some measured drawings and more photos.

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/r/rex_watson/rex_watson.htm

I've always been impressed with the level of detail Jordan Miniatures manages with their 1/87 rendition of a buck board.

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Nice work on the wagon, Chester.  Very convincing wood and metal.   It would be hard to guess how small that model really is from your photo. 

I'm impressed with Jordan kits, in general.   Under the magnifying glass you can find mind boggling details like the Ford logo stamped on the running boards of their Model T, and wheel spokes that are every bit as good as a photo etched part.  No other plastic kit maker has matched the crisp finesse of Jordan parts.  And the dies must have been cut eons ago, with low tech.   I've spotted Jordan vehicles in photos of John Allen's layout.   Plus they are cheap!
Dave

Ray, thanks for the info on the Dump Bottom Wagon. It's close to the Dump Bottom Wagon in the Kemtron plan book #15 

Chester, nice job on the Jordan kit and thanks for adding the article on the Watson wagon.

Here's a scan of the cover Wagons Kemtron plan book #15. The book also has plans for a 1925 Ice Wagon and a 1870 Wells-Fargo Mud Wagon.

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Here's a scan of the cover Heavy Motor Trucks Kemtron plan book #14.

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Gordon Birrell

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The last time I checked these Kemtron plan books were still available though Precision Scale Co.

Gordon Birrell

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Those plans look very interesting.  Is there much commercial interest in 1/48 horse drawn wagon kits?  They look like something I could get excited about. 

I happen to model the pre-automobile era but I'm in a tiny minority. Most narrow gaugers model 1935 and later. And the standard gauge market couldn't have more than a dozen modelers of the pre-auto era in all scales combined.

But you might sell kits to people who just like wagons regardless of their interest in trains. Somebody at a recent NG Convention sold some laser cut wagon kits and a few of my friends bought them.

Russ

Grandt Line has some great 1:48 scale wagon wheels.

Gordon Birrell

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Quote from: finescalerr on April 18, 2010, 11:35:27 AM


But you might sell kits to people who just like wagons regardless of their interest in trains. Somebody at a recent NG Convention sold some laser cut wagon kits and a few of my friends bought them.

Russ

I don't know if you mean this guy Russ, but I recently found this on the internet and I think that these wagons are some nice kits to build although I've never seen one for real. http://www.g-m-e.com/images/HO_S_O_WATER_WAGONS.jpg

Leon

Hm, yeah... once again... I am well outside the mainstream.

But these wagons are so cool, maybe I will do a one-off in 1/48.   Or maybe just a set of technical drawings.  Simply out of personal interest.   

Russ is this something you'd be interested in for an article? 

Dave   

Absolutely.

Dave, if you were going to the trouble of an article, then I would approach it this way: How a laser kit manufacturer designs a wagon from the ground up. If you build it with a really nice finish, then I would want the steps you go through to achieve that as well. Your company name would be included in the article to encourage people to check out your product line.

Russ

Hi Russ

That sounds like a really good plan.   Maybe I'll do that beer wagon.   :)

Dve

That ore wagon is one of the many things on my long list of "someday" projects -- things that aren't a high priority but would be fun to build. I'm modeling a later era but I could have it as a "historical display" in one of my mining towns.

Here's more wagon photos. These are sitting in Fairview, Utah.

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Gordon Birrell


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Got the Ivan Collins book yesterday, quick & courteous service from Wildhorse Books, and well worth the money.   Beautiful models, well photographed.  A few plans in the back, too.   Collins built some cartwright's tools in the same scale of his models, like a tire bending machine, then actually used them to build the models.   

Thanks for finding that link Paul. 

Dave

Quote from: Roughboy on April 15, 2010, 08:01:20 PM
Those are fantastic. I seem to remember seeing a book about his models many years ago, maybe 45 or so, at the public library. The pictures sure did ring a bell. His wagon plans are available online at Wild Horse Books & Art (http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/collins.htm). The site also has many colour photos of his wagons.

Paul

Edit: From what I've been able to find out, the Oregon Historical Society (http://www.ohs.org/index.cfm) holds his collection.

For several years Don Kralik at Xeodon had three excellent 1/48 wagon kits.        http://xeodonrail.com/
These were very accurate and delicately cast in resin. They are now out of production but perhaps Don could be coaxed......

Dave I'm ordering the book and a few sets of plans. Would you list the plans in the book for me so I don't end up with two sets of plans for the same wagon?

Gordon Birrell

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Hi Gordon

You'll really like this book!  I'm cautious about buying more books these days, as I have too many, but this one is excellent if you're interested in model wagons. 

The plans in back are Concord Coach, Road Coach, Albany Sleigh, Hearse, Dump Wagon and Sheepherder's Wagon.  They're reproduced pretty small though, about 7.5" x 5".

Dave 

 

Dave, thanks for the help.   

Gordon Birrell

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Here's a link to the Lindsey 8 Wheel Logging Wagon.

http://www.samlindsey.com/Logging/8Wheel/Lindsey_Wagon_Pics1.asp

Gordon Birrell

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Here's a great historical film on the San Francisco cable cars in 1906 with a lot of wagons moving around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k

Gordon Birrell


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Nice film Gordon.

Can you imagine this nowadays? Cars, wagons, bikers (didn't see Marc  ;) ) crossing the street from left to right and back without noticing each other as I didn't see any vehicle with a rearview mirror.

Leon

Gordon. Thanks bunches. That was great.

FWIW....some wagon catalog pages from my stuff.

Pg.2

Pg. 3

...and Pg. 4

Thank you Marc, great reference stuff.

Thanks guys for your input.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/len_elg/1810243534/sizes/o/

Gordon Birrell

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Here's a paddy wagon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/len_elg/1812316991/sizes/o/

Gordon Birrell

Quote from: Scratchman on May 30, 2010, 01:04:36 AM
Here's a paddy wagon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/len_elg/1812316991/sizes/o/

Gordon Birrell

Hmmm...maybe someone can refresh my memory......I can't seem to recall when exactly they started using plywood panesl on a welded square-tube steel frame, and cheap welded tube steel bars/door, to build prisoner enclosures with in the wild west. ??? ::)  I must have been absent that day. ;)


MR

The top looks like a mock up. The bottom is probably just an old farm wagon.

Here's an old tinkers wagon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38319201@N00/4631604260/sizes/l/in/pool-14581414@N00/

Gordon Birrell

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And here's the old tinker.

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Here's two photos of an old hay wagon.

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Gordon Birrell

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One more old farm wagon.

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Gordon Birrell

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Quote from: LeOn3 on May 29, 2010, 01:07:34 PM
Nice film Gordon.

Can you imagine this nowadays? Cars, wagons, bikers (didn't see Marc  ;) ) crossing the street from left to right and back without noticing each other as I didn't see any vehicle with a rearview mirror.

Those street scenes looked like pure chaos! Lots of near-misses, including two female pedestrians forced to jump out of the path of an automobile that veered in their direction.

I built some of the 1:20 laser kits from Grizzle Mountain Engineering. I did add some detail so they could be used in the background on the moduar layout. Here are some photos of the farmers wagon.
Richard

Very nice! Do the horses come with the kit?

Hi Ray,
No, the horses did not come with the kit. These laser cut wagon kits are very basic models and not a lot of detail. Some of the things I added are the metal wheel rims, brake assembly, hubs for the wheels and I also changed the wheel axles so they would turn. The wood barrel and hand tools were also added. The horses are from Schleich and the harness is from an old Budweiser wagon kit that was 1:20 scale.
Richard

Here's a buggy in 1:32 created from paper and wire. Pretty sweet ..

Thread (http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/civilian-wheels/7600-coach-buggy-series.html)

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I'm sure it must be a wonderful model. The site blocks access to images unless you are a member. -- Russ

Quote from: finescalerr on June 06, 2010, 11:27:19 AM
I'm sure it must be a wonderful model. The site blocks access to images unless you are a member. -- Russ

My bad. I uploaded it to my PhotoBucket account and changed the link.

Incredible! Great works, looks like the real thing.

Here's one of mine....
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Made from GR plans...
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LOTS more pix here if you're on Facebook....
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Here's two more wagons I found on vacation.

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Gordon Birrell

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Where did you see those wagons? Is that first one a buckboard?

Ray, I saw these wagons  in southern Utah. The first one I think is a farm wagon, I think a buckboard is shorter.
here is one more wagon using a Studebaker frame of some type.

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Gordon Birrell

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These are part of the static display at the Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Thomaston, Maine.

Here's a wagon I found in Tonopah, Nevada.

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Gordon Birrell

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Isn't that what they used to bring the bikini clad beauties to Uncle Russ's?

Quote from: chester on October 07, 2010, 05:42:35 PM
Isn't that what they used to bring the bikini clad beauties to Uncle Russ's?

.. apparently. It .. WOULD .. keep them from escaping en route. Similar to taking someone to a hanging I imagine.

They used those open air wagons in the old days. Now they arrive in plush, air conditioned buses. Oh, the sacrifices I make to keep those beautiful bikini girls satisfied ....  -- ssuR

Chester & Gordon

Great pictures!!

And Russ stop the day dreaming will you ;D

Jerry

Buckboards, as I remember them, always had sides.   I suppose there's exceptions as always.   It seems the Wikki site and others use a very loose interpretation of the word and images range all over the place.
Generally a buckboard is a short farm vehicle with one or two seats.   It is NOT a farm wagon so to speak.

A buckboard is a four-wheel open carriage with the seat or seats attached to a flexible board running between the front and rear axles.

Gordon Birrell  

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Your right Dave, these three wagons are box or spring wagons.

Seen on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/almcorona/2058125600/

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Loading watermelons from a wagon into a ventilated boxcar, somewhere in North Carolina, 1928.  Looks like the print is reversed.

great photos. like old wagons and mules and such

Looks like that wagon must have had a fairly fancy paint job when it was new.

I'd figure something like this Ivan Collins model.   Not really my area of expertise, but I guess a nice paint job would have been typical for a new wagon, as many commonplace things of that era were ornamented with paint and trim.     

Dave

Here's a couple of sites devoted to this form of modelling

http://www.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/


Then go to the forum and check out the "Progression of a Model" section, there's a few eye openers in there.

http://forum.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/

Thanks, John for the links.

Gordon Birrell

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Loading watermelons from a wagon into a ventilated boxcar, somewhere in North Carolina, 1928.  Looks like the print is reversed.

No, the print is not reversed, have a look at the centre bottom panel, you can just make out the word "studebaker", this company was making waggons long before they got into cars.

No, that doesn't (appear to) say Studebaker forwards or backwards -- save the photo, blow it up and have a look.  ???

Photo does NOT appear to be reversed -- you can clearly make out "A.C.L." (Atlantic Coast Line) on the boxcar door (if you zoom in on the photo).  ;)
-- Dallas

Hi Folks - I'd like to voice my appreciation to Scratchman for coming over to the SMHDV http://forum.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/index.php forum and providing the link back here (thanks Gordon :) ).

I had no idea that your type of modeling was out there ???....now I do and after many hours of exploring I can only marvel at the skill and artistic level presented.  And.........you do it so SMALL :o  I thought I did tinky little fussy stuff - my goodness....I'm out about 4 orders of magnitude :o

Cheers - Gus

Welcome aboard, Gus!

I blew up the areas mentioned and tweaked them a bit in PSP .. like Dallas said, the A.C.L. shows the photo is not reversed. Anyone want to guess what it says on the wagon?

THORNHILL it was a wagon company

Dave. Hmmm .. had a thought. How about a sheet of Lasered signs .. like the 'THORNHILL' .. you could have all the manufacturers .. for example .. found this website .. Tractor and Farm Equipment Manufactures Development History Timelines (http://www.centralhawkeye.org/tractor_history.php)

It really should be a decal, those markings were painted on, same as the pinstriping.   

Welcome Gus!  And, that horse-drawn forum looks like a great place to go get lost for a while ... bookmarked!

Yeah, I'll buy "THORNHILL" ... now that we've got that name, it can be "seen" quite readily in the original photo.  Now that Dave mentions that all this was painted on, it becomes obvious too that this wagon was once quite nicely decorated.  Some additional lettering is still evident in the lower left panel ... they did a very realistic job of fading out the trim in most of the other panels.   ;)  -- Dallas

Here' a site I found over on the S.M.H.D.V. forum.

http://www.tucsonrodeoparade.com/pages001/Equip_vehicle_Album.htm

Gordon Birrell

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Ferraris, Porches, Lamborghinis, Aston Martins, and Maseratis of their day. -- Russ

In Sun valley Idaho they have the annual "Big Hitch" parade! I went last year, it's during Labor Day and it's the largest non-motorized Parade in the west! The wagons, coaches and the 20 mule team are a thing of wonder! And if you ever get a chance to go to the Calgary Stampede, those restored rigs and teams of Clydesdales are worth over a million apiece and they have dozens of them on display! You gotta go at least once!
MPH
http://www.visitsunvalley.com/static/index.cfm?action=group&contentID=535

I found this photo at a yard sale.


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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

You can tell the guy was proud of the wagon. There's very good work there.

Dont know how much of this is original and how much is just mocked-up, but I ran across this being used as a street sign/address.  Sorry pics aren't that great..was on my bike and only had my phone camera.

Marc

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... umm, well ... I got another one - not THAT old, but pretty ugly, once built by HATLAPA, a former manufacturer of Feldbahn diesel locomotives, rebuilt probably half a dozen times, now serving in a wildlife park:

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Very neat Gerald,

Good reference for paint and weathering as well.


Marc

Thanks Marc and Gerald for the great wagon photos.

Here are three wagons that are in the antique power museum in Wallsburg Utah.

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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

An old Spring Wagon in pretty bad shape.  Located in a back yard in town.  All the parts and pieces were still there and and allowed for detailed measurements.

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...and the measurements allowed this 1:8 scale version to be built.  Had to guess on the colours but they were pretty standard for the times.

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That is a great looking wagon! Well done.

I wholley agree with Chuck. Nothing gives this away as a model.


Marc

Ditto, good stuff, Gus.

Dave

Nice job Gus, thanks for posting the photos.

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Beautiful! Looks just like the real thing.

Nice model, Gus.
I really like this topic. What a great variety of inspiring wagons.

Just to give an idea of what can be done with the plans available at... http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/    (previously mentioned in this thread)   Here's a jouney into the 'artsy-craftsy' end of things.  A 1/8 fancy buckboard.  Original plans were from John Thompson that he managed to draw before the original left a museum and got into private hands.  It's 'artsy-crafsty' because it would usually built out of the original/equivallent materials.....but this one is oiled American black walnut and brass.  Most of the plans available aren't too bad but I've heard that some are quite difficult to understand and others lack detail.  So far I've been lucky.....but one hears stories.......

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Wagons are great things to model. Unfortunately the horses that go with them are another matter entirely. You do nice work, Gus. -- Russ

Thanks for the kind comments folks - and those coming from craftsmen whose work is astounding!!!!!

.........and that's why I stay a looooooooong ways away from horses Russ.

Cheers - Gus

A beautiful buggy Gus. My favorite wood to work with.

Thought I better be polite and say hello to everybody, so HI to ALL.

Gordon Birrell - aka - Scratchman, (thanks Gordon)  posted this site, over at the Horse Drawn Forum and I've been lurking around here for quite a while, I'm just amazed at what some of you lot have been getting up too.

I'm into horse drawn stuff mainly, so this thread/posting is right  up my ally. I've done other stuff as well, if anybody is interested, they can have a quick look thru here.

http://community.webshots.com/user/radish1us


To show you what I've been up to, here's one I made a few years ago. It's in 1/12th scale and is a Farmers Spring Waggon. I like doing Australian  horse drawn stuff, I get my plans from some books published here in Aust, which are full of drawings of these type of vehicles.

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regards  Graham

Satisfactory. -- Russ

Very , Very nice ..............

Could you share a little detail on how you did all paintings , especially the lining on the wheels, etc.

Quote from: finescalerr on September 04, 2011, 01:32:09 AM
Satisfactory. -- Russ

Quote from: gfadvance on September 04, 2011, 01:48:56 AM
Very , Very nice ..............

Could you share a little detail on how you did all paintings , especially the lining on the wheels, etc.

Only satisfactory ? ?  Hmm, wonder what you need to do for something better than that ? ?


The painting was just air brushed enamel house paint, the cheapest I could find. Used Testors SAND for the undercoat which works brilliantly, then hit it with blue, or, the cream for the undercarriage.

The striping is usually done with Corel Draw to create whatever design I'm after, and then onto a clear decal sheet, using an ALPS MD 5500 printer.

With the Farmers Spring Waggon, the red and cream striping on the blue body, is from some railway decals I got from a friend, then the centre scrolls/swirls are from some 1/25th model truck decal sheets, as are all the other fancy scrolls/swirls on the undercarriage.
If you look real close at the red & cream lining, you can just make out that each panel is made up of 8 different decal bits, to create that one panel, four corner bits and four straight bits were required, very tedious cutting and pasting them, now the ALPS does them as one bit.
All the striping on the wheels, was done with the ALPS printer.

regards  Graham



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Thanks for the info Graham, wish I had access to an ALPS printer.

The close-ups are even better ........... have great admiration for the work you have done on this, the repetitive bits look identical a feat I can never achieve.

By the way a "satisfactory" from the man is high praise!!!!

That is a LOT of decal work, and well done!   Now in 1:48 scale it would be another matter ;D ;D

Beautiful work on the wagon, Graham.   The pinstriping is just superb! 

Do you have your own Arps, and would you consider some printing some custom work?   Or swapping custom decals for custom laser cutting?

Dave

Wow! Excellent work! That wagon's a real beauty.

"Satisfactory" is indeed high praise from Russ. If he gets really worked up, he might even throw in a modifier, for instance, "Quite satisfactory".

Quote from: Ray Dunakin on September 04, 2011, 04:34:37 PM

"Satisfactory" is indeed high praise from Russ. If he gets really worked up, he might even throw in a modifier, for instance, "Quite satisfactory".

Woops, better back up a bit then and say, ---  Russ, thank you for the compliment.

regards  Graham

Quote from: DaKra on September 04, 2011, 09:10:15 AM


Do you have your own Arps, and would you consider some printing some custom work?   Or swapping custom decals for custom laser cutting?

Dave

Hi Dave, the possibilities here sound endless, please check your private messages.

regards  Graham

Here's one I've just finished.

It's a Sydney Brass Sulky in 1/8th scale, I had to go a bit bigger in scale to get in all the detail that's required.

Here's a picture of the original vehicle, that I got all the details to make the model from.


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I used hundreds of decals on this model, all decals were done on the ALPS. Each wheel alone, has 75 decals added to it.
All nuts and bolts that can be seen are hand made, only used 2  store bought  3mm  nuts which are hidden away in the brass axle caps.


Here's the model.


regards  Graham






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Holy moly!!! That's one terrific model!

Graham, please stop trying to pass off 1:1 scale horse drawn vehicles as models. How childish. Most satisfactory nonetheless. -- ssuR

Quote from: finescalerr on September 05, 2011, 01:14:50 AM
Graham, please stop trying to pass off 1:1 scale horse drawn vehicles as models. -- ssuR

Hmm, I'll have to ignore that remark, eh. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


I didn't take too many progress photos as I didn't think they would be needed, anyway here's what I've got.


This one of the shaft tips.


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Photo etched the brass shaft steps at home using the "SteamPunk" method, it actually works.


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Then rolled them to fit the shaft and used a jewellers saw to trim them from the bent sheet.


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Tried making the seat out of timber, but it was way too heavy, a trawl thru many different forums and bingo, used the timber bits for 'bucks' for vacuum forming the bits out of 1mm styrene.


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Then a few shots of it in a very bare state. I used whatever I could lay my hands on, that would do the job I required it to do. The main medium is timber, MYRTLE, then there's acrylic, aluminium, brass, bronzing rods, even silicone 'O' rings for tyres.
Ever tried to paint silicone, well, it can be done, but only if you use this product to seal it first.

http://www.zinsser.com.au/downloads/tech_data/BIN_Info.pdf



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regards  Graham

Inspirational work Graham.
I love seeing people work with such skill and craft.  It gives me hope for our future...

Graham -
Do you have a link to the "Steam Punk" etching process?
Carlo

Stunning work Graham... these are absolutely beautiful. The wheels alone are works of art in themselves...

Paul

What Paul said!   The background is the only hint these are models.   

Dave
     

Quote from: Carlo on September 05, 2011, 06:54:46 AM
Graham -
Do you have a link to the "Steam Punk" etching process?
Carlo

Here you go Carlo, the thing you have to be very particular about, is keeping the brass CLEAN, I polished the brass sheet before applying the negative. To remove all traces of the polishing compound,  I wiped the brass with a clean rag dipped in thinners, if any residue from the polishing is left on the brass, then the negative will lift off, ruining the etching process.

Spotless is what is recommended, better believe it.

This has been posted before, I think I read it in the Tips, Tricks, Techniques & Tools section.

regards  Graham

http://steampunkworkshop.com/electroetch.shtml

Really nice work! how about some SBS (step by step) on how you make your wheels?
thanks
MPH

Quote from: Mr Potato Head on September 06, 2011, 07:49:14 AM
Really nice work! how about some SBS (step by step) on how you make your wheels?
thanks
MPH

Hi Gil, if you are interested in making a horse drawn vehicle, then have a look at this site.
I have allready added two sections on wheels, with-in this lot. -- ( look for the 'bits' by radish )

http://www.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/(Tips%20&%20Ideas).htm

There are many different types of wheels for horse drawn vehicles, ie - the 'sulky' wheels would not be able to be fitted onto a heavy waggon for instance.
You've heard the saying "horse's for course's", well, that's the same for wheels, there are so many variations that can be made, it's a bit hard to do one write-up, that would cover ALL types of wheels.

regards  Graham

Thanks I will have a look at this, I was recently at the "Big Hitch" Parade and the Calgary Stampede" and I fell in love with wagons, plus here at  43 degrees north, 116 degrees West, (Idaho)
There are a lot of wagons always on display. I also have a copy of the Collins book, which shows a lot of examples of really cool wagons, plus I have also seen them on display at the Oregon Museum of Western History. I was just looking for more "how to" info, because I didn't want to reinvent the "Wheel" LOL
Thanks
MPH

Gil, have sent you a  PM.

regards  Graham

Very nice modeling Graham. Thanks for posting the photos and the information.

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Yes, excellent work and inspirational too!

Here's photos of three wagons I found on my two day road trip I took last week. The sheep-header wagon and the small wagon I found in Manila, Utah. The other wagon was at the Fort Bridger museum in Fort Bridger, Wyoming.

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I have 36 other photos from this trip over on my Flickr page.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Gordon Birrell

I had this link sent to me for plans of a Studebaker wagon and a J.Deere.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kuntz/wagon.html (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kuntz/wagon.html)
Might be helpful for someone trying to build from scratch.

Neat and informative stuff, thanks for sharing.

Dave, thanks for posting the photos and the link to the plans.

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

You're welcome Gordon.   Now I'm just waiting to see your build of one of those.

Here's a link I came across today.

http://www.guildofmodelwheelwrights.org/GOMW_vehicles.htm

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Excellent link Gordon, what a great find of wagon modelers. 
I do suppose the 1:12th scale makes it a bit easier compared to my 1:48 thinking.
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wow, this is great. I wouldn't know where to start on one of these....especially making the wheels  >:(
Rob

 Hers a link to Carriage Hill Farm.

http://www.robertpence.com/oh_dayton/oh_carriage_hill_farm.html

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

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Graham, I just came to this thread, absolutely stunning workmanship! it is nice to see models that represent prototypes in concors condition.

Michael   

Here's three wagons located in Mapleton, Utah.

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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Some more great wagons Gordon, thanks.
B)

I'm looking for a water wagon to go with my Buffalo Pitts traction engine and I ran across this site.

http://www.google.com/search?q=old+water+wagon&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=iaTzTvGRJrDViAKMmMG_Dg&sqi=2&ved=0CDMQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=867

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Hi
In the January issue of NGSG was published a copy I submitted a drawing for an 1890 Night Cart held as part of the collection for  local transport museum out of Christchurch New Zealand. I attach additional photos for those interested
Regards
Les

Try again

Gordon,

I really like those half round metal wagons. Thanks for the link.

Why would anybody here submit material to the Gazette? We are a galaxy away from its approach. -- Russ

Very cool thread this is. And the modeling displayed is just wonderful.

I found this old wagon at an antique store in Pigeon Forge, TN. I had no idea there was so much involved in a wagon wheel.

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Jaime

Quote from: finescalerr on February 29, 2012, 12:18:48 PM
Why would anybody here submit material to the Gazette? We are a galaxy away from its approach. -- Russ

Personally, I like to see advanced modelers share their knowledge in as many places as possible. Sort of "spreading the gospel" of fine modeling. The more people getting hooked on it, the more potential future readers/contributors you'll have.

Quote from: nemmrrc on February 29, 2012, 03:46:16 PM


I found this old wagon at an antique store in Pigeon Forge, TN. I had no idea there was so much involved in a wagon wheel.


Jaime

That wheel is quite a normal wheel, there are harder wheels to make than that one.

The wheel in the photo is a medium duty type of wheel, about good for a ton on it, the felloe is actually a steam bent two piece, which would make it about the 1900-20's manufacture.

The normal 12 spoke wheel of earlier construction, would have had 6 individual felloes fitted, two spokes per felloe, instead of the two steam bent felloes.

Some of the English type of wheels are weird with the dish so amplified, then again the American Sarvern type wheel is a different animal again.

For those interested in making model horse drawn vehicles, this site is well worth a real good look. Head to the Tips and Ideas section for info about making wheels.

http://scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/ 

regards  greenie

If anyone is in Palm Beach, FL, there is an exhibition of an important 19th and early 20th century American West collection at the Four Arts Society. On the lawn outside the building is a row of wagons and a cannon...inside is a fully restored Wells Fargo coach Well worth a look if you have the chance.

http://www.fourarts.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.one&content_id=1085&x=5290590 (http://www.fourarts.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.one&content_id=1085&x=5290590)

Mario posted this link elsewhere and it has a number of good photos of old wagons, plus other stuff.   Fairplay, CO
http://modvid.com.au/html/body_fairplay.html (http://modvid.com.au/html/body_fairplay.html)
About half way down the page.
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Here's a old wagon I found near my home.

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Gordon Birrell

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Traveling Dark Room.

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/USHS_Class&CISOPTR=18679&CISOBOX=1&REC=10

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Stump Puller.

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/USHS_Class&CISOPTR=6722&CISOBOX=1&REC=6

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Board of health garbage wagons

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/USHS_Shipler&CISOPTR=4631&CISOBOX=1&REC=14

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Then, of course, there's the good 'ol Galamander wagon.  I believe this one was used on Vinalhaven, Maine for hauling granite.  the granite blocks would be picked up by the windlass (long pole sticking above the vehicle) and slung under the heavy rear axle.  this photo indicates that the rear wheels are 12' high.  Seems a bit excessive but it's also hard to tell from an old photo.

I presently have the plans for this type about 75% complete to build a 1:8 but, as usual, getting fine detail on some of the wagons that can be located on the web is difficult.  One of these vehicles is on Vinalhaven Isl. presently and I contacted the owners (Historical Society) to see if I could arrange for some basic measurements and some better photo's.  Now, I was quite prepared to provide compensation for someone's efforts but the Director chose to insist that I build a complete 2nd model and donate it in return for the data and photo's.  Darn, sometimes a plan just doesn't seem to want to come together.  It is very difficult to get the required details on some builds that would be an absolute hoot to tackle unless someone has already made up some plans.......otherwise there's a lot of guessing going on as to actual scale when trying to (in this case) create plans from 5 oblique photo's.

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Gus, sounds like a good offer to me and a great opportunity to have one of your models on display in a museum.   It wouldn't be too difficult to build two of them once you have the dimensions and photos, just some time commitment on your part.
Good luck.
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Sorry to hear about that Gus. One hour or so of his time to help you out, and all he wants is hundreds and hundreds of hours from you. You do museum quality work and I am sure that your work will end up in a museum some day. It sounds like this guy has no idea how much work is involved in one of your masterpieces. When I asked the owner for help on the Tozer portable steam engine that I'm Modeling the guy has been just great and has given me more help than I ever expected.

Gordon Birrell

     http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Hi Gord :D  Yup - including the plans the model will probably hit somewhere around 200 hours to get right.  Not a huge deal as I suspect that you are correct in that the guy really had no idea of what's involved.  On the good side, I found a 'Taber Wagon' at an auction near Edmonton last year and the guys at the auction were fantastic - photo's and measurements were happily provided as long as I displayed the model at the Spring Auction this year.  It's now done and I'm looking forward to the trip....and maybe find another vehicle that I can document while I'm there for a future build.  Sometimes it works.....sometimes it doesn't. ::) ;D

Cheers - Gus

Gus,

There is a Galamander of a slightly diffrent design in the Maine State Museum in Augusta and another one on display in Cherryfield Maine alongside route 182

If your interested in the one at the State Museum I would contact Kate McBrien - Curator of Historic Collections. She has been extremly helpful to me in the past - taking photos of details etc. for one of my projects. Indeed they might already have a set of drawings available.

Also, I am only about 45 min. away from the museum if I can be of assistance just let me know.

Best regards,
Terry

Quote from: Terry Harper on March 20, 2012, 07:19:14 AM
Gus,

There is a Galamander of a slightly diffrent design in the Maine State Museum in Augusta and another one on display in Cherryfield Maine alongside route 182

If your interested in the one at the State Museum I would contact Kate McBrien - Curator of Historic Collections. She has been extremly helpful to me in the past - taking photos of details etc. for one of my projects. Indeed they might already have a set of drawings available.

Also, I am only about 45 min. away from the museum if I can be of assistance just let me know.

Best regards,
Terry

Terry - thank you so very much for the contact name and the very kind offer.  I will contact Kate McBrien and see how that goes......then proceed from there.  I would very much like the model to be 'museum quality' but, at present, the lack of detail will make anything built designated as an 'of a type' build.  Perfectly acceptable in certain circumstances (drawing/interpreting from photo's) but not what I would really like to accomplish as an end product.

Thanks again and I'll let you know how it all works out.

Cheers - Gus ;D

My 1/87 scale modeling Dutch friend Jeroen van der Ven, scratch built this wagon in styrene. The unusual terminal gear (which is p.e. brass)  is a device for lifting draught horses from the canal tow path. More of Jeroens work here:

http://87thscale.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=finished&action=display&thread=1812&page=4

Satisfactory. -- Russ

In 1/87 ... holy crap!  There's some amazing workmanship in all the tiny details there.  -- Dallas

Quote from: Malachi Constant on April 18, 2012, 01:42:26 PM
In 1/87 ... holy crap!  There's some amazing workmanship in all the tiny details there.  -- Dallas

What he said!

Really incredible work for such a small scale.

Beautiful work, and very interesting prototypes. The bar is pretty high in HO these days.

Hi All,

First post here. I saw this thread on old wagons and couldnt help but to post one I built. This was built for a friend of mine. He asked me to build it as a Christmas gift for a friend of his. His friend has this old wagon on his farm and my friend (whew, this is getting a little confusing!) took me there and I took pictures so that I could build this model. I built it in 1/12 scale and did really light weathering. No rotting boards or crumbly rust. I wanted a wagon that looked like it was used every day. I think it turned out pretty well and so did my friend who decided to keep it for himself.  ;D

Chris

Wow, that came out very nice.   Now you need to start another one.

Beautiful work!!!  An in HO no less.

Jerry

Welcome aboard! Nice work on that 1/12th scale wagon.

Welcome.
glad you posted that here.
like to see some lice of what else your working on..
I know its 1:1 but still like to see it!
enjoy
Marty

here,s two wagons made out of old truck parts.

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Gordon Birrell

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I attach photos of a Russell Hi-way Patrol No2 horse pull grader with a 6 foot blade

Here's three more wagons.

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Gordon Birrell

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A few Aussie wagons.   

http://www.modvid.com.au/html/body_australian__history.html

regards  Mario

A few Colorado wagons amongst this lot

http://www.modvid.com.au/html/body_fairplay.html

regards   "M"

Hi,

New here. My favorite subject, wagons. Have enjoyed the postings so far, hope to see more.  Want to test posting photos.  Here are some wagon thumbnail details that might be helpful if you want lots of detail in your model.
Click on photo to enlarge.
 Thanks all, Bill  (sometimes on yahoo aka Hank)
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Nice Photo pages Hank.   What publication did they come from?   I might like to get a copy.
Oh, and welcome to the forum.

Quote from: mabloodhound on August 09, 2012, 04:14:04 PM
Nice Photo pages Hank.   What publication did they come from?   I might like to get a copy.
Oh, and welcome to the forum.

American Horse-Drawn Vehicles by Jack D. Rittenhouse.  It has over two hundred pictures of horse drawn vehicles I bought  my copy is from the late 1960s so not sure it is in print any more.

Quote from: mabloodhound on November 15, 2010, 08:14:09 AM
Buckboards, as I remember them, always had sides.   I suppose there's exceptions as always.   It seems the Wikki site and others use a very loose interpretation of the word and images range all over the place.
Generally a buckboard is a short farm vehicle with one or two seats.   It is NOT a farm wagon so to speak.

Actually these are spring wagons, a light wagon used much like the modern pickup.  Extra seats could be added so they could be used much like a stage coach.  Gus built a very fine, high detailed 1/8th scale model of one shown a few pages back.

Hello All,
I have spent hours browsing this forum and I can't find an end or bottom to the variety of talent here.

I guess I should introduce myself.  I'm Bill Hudson, I'm 80+ years old and a very long time modeler. I work in several scales and in several varieties of models but mostly in Horse Drawn Vehicles.  I work mostly in 1/12th scale but my favorite is 1/8th scale (display space in this scale is the real problem).  In the late 1950s and into the 60s I spent a lot of my spare time hanging around Ivan Collins studio and museum. I guess that is where I got bitten by the high detail scale modeling bug. Years later I had the privilege to repair some of Ivan's models for the Oregon Historical Society Museum In Portland, Oregon where they are now housed.  I also have worked in 1/48th scale mostly in white metal casting kits for horse drawn logging.  I was known as The Hudson Carriage Co.  I produced my own patterns and castings and also cast much of Bill Roy's early kits too.  My kits were logging high wheels kit with horses, eight wheel wagon kit, horses and some logging figures, a Fresno scraper, and a pan scraper.  After i had a heart attack I had to give up the casting.  I gave all my molds and kit supplies to Bill.  He worked under the name of Mckenzie Iron and Steel.  Bill recently passed away and has left a large hole in my friendship list. I still find myself reaching for the phone to chat with him.  

I also build miniatures for collectors.  You can see a video of some of them filmed by Oregon Public Broadcasting and shown on Oregon Art Beat.  The URL is below my name in my signature.  I also spent 14 years flying back to Maine to teach a week of class in building miniatures focused mostly around wheeled toys in 1/12th scale. I also designed and built the patterns for a Destroyer Escort model ship for Bluejacket Ship Crafters in Main. There isn't/wasn't enough time in this one life time to also go off any farther into ship models too.  

Y'all have the very fine resource of modeling genius in Greenie here but if I can help with American vehicles feel free to ask and I will try to find an answer.  Below is a shelf of some of my models I have kept for myself.  Most are in 1/8th scale. Click on the picture to enlarge.

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Below are some detail close ups of the logging sled.

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Quote from: DaKra on April 15, 2010, 06:29:21 AM
Good reference photos, thanks.

Here's a series of photos of really nice wagon models photographed in 1945 for Life Magazine

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=eafb4168239b8fff&q=wagon%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwagon%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26ie%3DUTF-8%26tbs%3Disch:1#

Notice the photo of the builder, shows what a master craftsman can do with low tech on his kitchen table!

Dave

I was quite fortunate to have had the privilege from 1958-1976 to spend many hours in Ivan's Museum of Miniature Wagons.  I learned a lot from Ivan.   Ivan was very fine man and good at sharing techniques with me although I never was allowed to do any work in his well kept shop.

Welcome aboard, Bill! Great stuff there, I especially like the very realistic weathering on the logging sled.

here"s some neat photos.
http://www.steampicturelibrary.com/r2/horse_drawn_vehicles/photo/7761.html
Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Here's two more wagon photos.

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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

This wagon was new this year at the antique power show.

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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

 Kids wagon.

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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

The buggy is at a museum in Delta, Utah. The unusual wheel are in Wanship, Utah. The photos were taken on day trips with two of my grand kids. the museum in Delta had some great antique.

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Gordon Birrell
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Green with yellow wheels must have been popular, I've seen several old wagons with that color combination.

I've never been to Delta Gordon, is it worth visiting?  Are there a lot of interesting old things to see there?

David

David, there's  a lot of farm stuff, a Case steam tractor in the park and I found these two fire trucks in the town of Deseret.

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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

All You South Westerners! "the Big Hitch" Parade is this Saturday in Ketchum Idaho, it's the largest non motorized parade in the West!
Even though they had a disastrous fire the last two weeks they are still going on with the parade, Wagons and Surreys, and horse teams, even big fat Cabieros with beautiful Mexican horses and Senioritis clad in silver!
Don't miss it if your near, I'm going
MPH

Quote from: Scratchman on June 22, 2013, 08:55:50 PM
Kids wagon.

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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

Actually not a kids wagon. It is from Europe and is used to haul vegetable crops from the fields. A lot of them were imported to US in the 80s and sold as antiques in the shops.

Quote from: Mr Potato Head on August 27, 2013, 06:26:00 PM
All You South Westerners! "the Big Hitch" Parade is this Saturday in Ketchum Idaho, it's the largest non motorized parade in the West!
Even though they had a disastrous fire the last two weeks they are still going on with the parade, Wagons and Surreys, and horse teams, even big fat Cabieros with beautiful Mexican horses and Senioritis clad in silver!
Don't miss it if your near, I'm going
MPH

Of course there will be a lot of pictures posted here of the parade for us who can't be there to see.

An attempt to bring this forward. Hate to see the wagons buried. Wish more would model them.

Here's two air compressors I think there both in Tonopah Nevada.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/13790602315_897d93e8c8_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n1CrBr)IMG_9039 (https://flic.kr/p/n1CrBr) by Gordon Birrell (https://www.flickr.com/people/77318580@N00/), on Flickr

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Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

That tank in the background (compressed air?) is interesting. It's put together like a big spiral-wound, riveted pipe.

Thought I better resurrect this thread from the deep dark past, so here is the latest build, it's a 1/12th scale Butchers Light Order Cart, enjoy.

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regards  greenie  

I thought we had seen the last of those beautiful wagons but that one is as gorgeous as anything I've seen. -- Russ

Totally awesome Greenie!!!!! Allan

Huzzah! Huzzah! HUZZAH!!!

Oh lord, that's something! Please let those spoke ornaments be decals ...

Cheers,
Volker

Could you (or anyone else) please point me to a tutorial on making wagon wheels like these?
Thanks, Carlo

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful....

Carlo, checkout here for basic wheel making.    http://www.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/(Tips%20&%20Ideas).htm#wheels

http://www.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/(Scale%20Wheels).htm

Bill

Russ, you have definitely OVER EXERTED yourself with such a 'glowing oratory', I do thank you ----------------- ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)


Carlo, if your going to make a WAGGON wheel, then please do a lot of research on the particular vehicle that you want to model, as not ALL wooden spoked wheels are the same as what is in those tutorials. A "waggon wheel" is a lot heavier in construction, than what a "buggy wheel" would be.

What is written in those tutorials, is just a "generalization" of how I do wheels.

regards  greenie 

Greenie your model reminds me of why I became interested in model-building, way back when I was a kid and saw models like yours though probably no where near as beautifully made. They were in the science museum in London and I spent hours looking at them.
There is a museum south of here called the Remington Carriage Museum http://www.history.alberta.ca/remington/ (http://www.history.alberta.ca/remington/) they have a section that the public can view where they still repair and make carriage wheels.

Michael

Holy carp! Stunning work. With a different background, it would be indistinguishable from the prototype.

How did you do that fine lettering and striping? Decals?

This is truly stunning. No exaggerating.

All the fancy lettering and pinstriping is done using CorelDraw, then printed onto a clear decal sheet using an Alps MD 5500 printer, I just cant find a 'leprechaun' who can do pinstriping, anybody know where one is hiding, eh. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


regards  greenie

Thanks for clearing that up, nice job on the pin striping, I saw the exhibition of Albert Collins work at the Oregon historical society over 30 years ago and I was was blow away, your work is spectacular !
MPH

MPH are you maybe thinking of Ivan Collins? I got my interest in model carriages and wagons from him. I used to hang out in his little wagon museum when it was located on the University of Oregon campus in the elate 1950s.

Bill

No Bill
I was referring to Albert, Ivan's twin brother, lesser know but just as talented
::) ::) ::) ::)
MPH

Been a bit busy and this "thingy" popped out of the shed, tried my hand at making one that's still able to be fitted to a horse.

Here's the full sized one ------


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Plenty of photographs with a heap of measurements, then onto the computer and draw it all to scale, then started on it. 

Enjoy ------------

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regards  greenie 

Most satisfactory. -- Russ

Another jewel! Magnificent is an understatement.

hard to believe that it is a model. thank you to you for showing.

Certainly magnificent , just love the details from the square headed bolts to the  paint work and the pin striping (decals?)

That is just awesome beautifully done.

Jerry

Holy cow! (or should I say chicken?)   That is amazingly awesome! What scale?

Whoops, should have added this photo as well, it's 1/12 th scale.


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regards  greenie 

Ray Dunakin, well you should say 'holy cow' as the vehicle is actually an old Milk Cart, Bob Bone found it in a very bad way, but there was enough of the original timber bits left on it, so he could use them as a pattern.

He rebuilt it, but about now here's the problem, Bob had NO cows, but he had plenty of chooks, so it was painted as a Egg Cart.
Notice the two cut-outs at the bottom of the tail-gate at the rear, they were so the spigots on the milk churns, could stick out in the open and be used to fill any empty vessel that you wanted filled with fresh milk.

regards  greenie

Just could not believe it is a model but the ruler gave it away - lovely stuff in fact excellent
Barney

So that's what those two cutouts on the tailgate were originally for! I was half wondering if the cart carried live chickens, the customer held her egg basket next to the cutout of her choice (brown eggs or white eggs?) and waited for very fresh eggs :)

More seriously, would a milk cart and an egg cart be considered types of "dog carts"?

Hi Bill, as a general rule of thumb, - a Cart - is meant to be any horse drawn two wheeled vehicle, a Lorry,Trolley or Waggon is a four wheeled horse drawn vehicle, so, a "Dog Cart", is just another type of cart.

A Dog Cart is so named, because it's used for carrying dogs around, in under the seat.
It gets a bit confusing about now, because sometimes a "four wheeled vehicle" is even called a Dog Cart as well, it's a bigger version and carries a lot more dogs, hence the four wheels, as well as persons/shooters/hunters on the seats, got me beat why a four wheeled vehicle is 'still' called a Cart though.
This is actually the only "anomaly" regarding the naming of horse drawn vehicles, that I can think of right now.

There is a plethora of different types of horse drawn vehicles and all were mainly used for specific purposes, sometimes one type of vehicle could be used for a few different purposes, but a lot were built for the one type of job at hand.

regards  greenie


ps - for further research, please have a look at this link and it will all be explained.

https://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/the-regency-sport-utility-vehicle/

Here's something that's a 'wee' bit different (pardon the pun), a Sanitary Waggon made to 1/12th scale. I don't think that there would have been too many models ever made, of the old "dunny cart" eh.
Used the drawings of J.E.Bishop once again, printed in the Coachbuilder & Wheelwright, May 15, 1917.
Don't know why it's called a Waggon, when it's really just a Lorry with a box on top.
Then again the name "dunny cart", is surely a bit of a 'misnomer' as well.

--------------------------- Oh, NO smell or flies with this one -----  ;D ::)

regards    greenie


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Beautiful rendition of an unusual, utilitarian subject!

Your models are incredibly satisfactory. -- Russ

Amazing how much effort they put into decorating what is often called a "honey bucket" on this side of the pond. Another terrific model!

The "honey wagons" here had provisions for loading long slide in trays that had been slid under the outhouse rather than buckets.
Not a pleasant job
And no wagon here was anywhere near that fancy.
Excellent work.

———And NO waggon here was anywhere near that fancy ———

Well,  ---  actually that is a very basic single colour scheme used on that 'dunny cart', it would have been about the bare minimum applied to a vehicle, before it would have been allowed to leave the manufacturing premises.

Most people do not realise, that these old vehicles were a riot of colour, as it was the manufactures method of advertising their wares, the better looking/flasher a vehicle was, the easier it was noticed and the more business it generated, simple, eh.

The painting of the vehicles also protected the bare timber from the ravages of time,  now-day's most of these vehicles have been neglected for many decades and just parked out under a tree somewhere. The paint has deteriorated over time and flaked/fallen of the timber, so they are just bare timber now and a lot of people think that is how they were sold.

What they originally would have looked like, ------------- well that's now a long lost faded memory.

Even a simple Farm Waggon, had quite a bit of 'flash' added to it to make it stand out.

Here's a few sites for perusal, they have some of these old vehicles as they were originally painted.
Please note the two tone paint schemes used and all the pin striping and fancy scroll work that was added to even a simple hard working farm waggon.


http://www.hansenwheel.com/custom-showcase/custom-vehicle-showcase/farm-wagon/

http://www.oxbowwagonsandcoaches.com/horse-drawn-antiques-restorations.html



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regards   greenie

Time to give this lot a kick in the pants once again.

Saw this in a book and thought, yep, I got the drawing for that, so it's time to get busy once again.

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It's a Sydney Meat Waggon and this design kind of replaced all others, it has the carcasses hanging from overhead hooks, just like modern trucks do today.
Previous to this design, they just laid the carcasses on the floor and stacked them like logs, one on top of the other, so this new design was a bit more hygienic and plenty of these were made and used.
Had the actual drawings from J.E.Bishop once again, these were printed in the Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, July 1902, so just worked direct from the drawing.

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Had a bit of luck and managed to get a coloured photo taken way back in the 1960's, of one of these waggons that had been repainted to be used in the Sydney Royal Show back then. The bloke in white coveralls is the son of the fella that started a signwriting business in Sydney in the 1910's, or there-a-bouts and he painted the vehicle using virtually the same colour scheme, as what was used on the vehicle originally . His son is in the photo on the right hand side, this fella is now in his late 80's and still kickin', only he's got Parkinsons today.

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Started on it and once again, forgot to take any progress shot's, sorry, only got this one shot of it before painting.

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Started painting it and doing the decals in home using CorelDraw and the ALPS MD5500 printer.


The rear doors I cheated with the reddish colour, I splashed some paint onto a decal sheet, then just cut out the squares and stuck them onto the doors, used another decal over the colour patch, bingo, saved a headache trying to mask of the doors.

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The name plate that goes down each side of the Waggon, that decal was about 6 inches long and an inch wide, bit of a bug bear to get it into the correct position and stay there as it was being stuck down.

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Splashed around a bit of colour and added a few decals onto the turntable ( 5th Wheel )

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What the finished product looks like ------------ only got the two lamps to finish and it will then be complete.

Any questions or queries, you know what to do, enjoy -----

regards  greenie  





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Just incredible!!!

What a wonderful hobby where you can create and present such eye-pleasing results!
I am sure my wife would carry me on her shoulders through the house if I could show her such a pieces of art ... ;)

Congrats,
Peter

Yet another humiliating model. You are absolutely incorrigible.

That aside, I may be even more impressed by the finish you applied now that I've seen the raw wood you start with. I would assume you began with some kind of sealer to achieve that glass smooth finish prior to applying paint. I won't even begin to comment on the perfection of the pin striping and graphics.

Now, if everyone will excuse me, I must hit my head against the wall for a while.

Russ

Incredibly great! What a beautiful model.
Could you suggest a tutorial for building wooden wagon wheels?
Perhaps one that doesn't require fancy power tools.
Carlo

Carlo, have a look here, there's quite a bit of information that you might find usefull.

http://www.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/(Tips%20&%20Ideas).htm


regards  greenie

Thank you Russ for your kind words.

As for the finish on the timber, well you have to start with a decent timber, or, you'll get a crap finish if you use crap timber.

I use Tasmanian Myrtle ( http://www.wood-database.com/tasmanian-myrtle/ ) which is an excellent timber to use because there is virtually NO pore holes showing, then I use a Thickness Sander that I made, to reduce it to the thickness that I require. This does leave an excellent smooth finish on any pieces that have been thru the sander. The sander can sand a bit of timber down to 0.010" thous and you can actually see thru the timber, when you hold it up to the light.
Once it has been fully assembled in the raw, I then break it down, to each individual colour I require.
The ONLY primer/undercoat I use is ---- Testors SAND FS33531 - Flat Enamel Paint, it does cost a bit, but it's the only stuff I've come across that sticks like 'shit to a blanket' and is the most NEUTRAL colour in the universe. I avoid using grey, like I would avoid the plague, as it's made from the two most violent colours in the colour spectrum, black and white. It takes a couple of colour coats just to try and hide this 'snot' grey colour which then fills in any detail you want to stand out.
Once it's dried, I then just scrub the surface with a clean dry old toothbrush, this removes any bits of fluff/dust that might have stuck to the wet paint. Any bigger bits get flicked of with a fingernail.
The finished coat is just very ordinary enamel house paint, you can buy this stuff for a fraction of the cost of hobby paints, they will even mix the right colour for you as well.

As you can see, nothing special in the painting process at all.

regards  greenie

Maybe I missed something (the model is exquisite, btw): How do you apply the coat and color? By air brush? I hope so ... :o

Cheers,
Volker

Another masterpiece! Simply stunning work!

Hi Volker, just use an el-cheapo air brush, nothing special at all.

regards  greenie

All finished with the lamps being added, and then tucked away in the cupboard.


regards  greenie


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I missed this one, when you first posted your latest in your series of fantastic models. Well done!

Your work is truly deserving of the phrase "museum quality".

Much appreciated gentlemen for the ' kudos '.

Not quite museum quality, still got quite a distance to go before that happens.  ::)


regards  greenie

Another one for the cupboard, this time it's a Country Storekeepers Waggon, made in 1/12th scale again. Drawings were printed in the Coachbuilders and Wheelwright on July 15 1908.


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Here's what got me interested in making it, just a picture on the back cover of a book called Tom Downers Legacy.

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Absolutely drop-dead gorgeous!  Your work perfectly reproduces the superb craftsmanship and artistry of the prototypes, and does it in a much smaller size to boot!

You know, if you keep practicing, one of these days you'll probably build a pretty good model. Incidentally, your wagon looks better and has nicer graphics than the picture that inspired it. -- Russ

Thank you Ray and Russ, it is much appreciated with those kind words. :-)

regards  greenie

Great model!
Are those wheel rims CNC cut plexi?
I'd love to see how you made the wheels.
Carlo

Another terrific wagon, and the wheel construction does look interesting.

Really nice work!
Is the lining decals or hand painted?
Not that it really matters, it looks very good regardless of the technique used.

Incredible work!  I've just tried some simple lining myself, and your work shows me how much I have to learn!

Carlo, have a look at the link below and check out the three books on " Making Model --------------" by John Thompson.
Each book will have a chapter on how to make wooden spoked wheels, I use the exact same method, with only a few modifications on how he does it.

http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/ModelVehicleBooks.htm

If I have to make a set of heavier type of  waggon wheels, then I will use wooden fellie sections to make the wheel, as per what John Thompson describes.

For a lighter type of wheel, then I'll use the 'plexiglass' for the fellies or rim.
Making a lighter type of wheel from wooden fellies is prone to disaster, as the sections do not have any thickness about them, for the glued fellies to hold together, they will and do break apart at the worst possible moment, hence, I now use a one piece plexiglass/sheet acrylic for the job at hand.

When making the fellies from plexiglass/sheet acrylic, the lathe is used to cut them from a small section of the sheet.

It would be nice to be able to get them cut out using CNC, but I don't have one available to use.


'EZnKY' and 'Hauk', the lining is decals, I use CorelDraw to get the design correct and then print them out onto decal paper.
I'm yet to find a 'Leprechaun' down the back garden that can do pin-striping for me.  ::)

regards  greenie

Incredible workmanship just keep it coming
Barney

Thanks for the wheel ifo.
It was very helpful.
Carlo

I'm impressed with the color density on your decals.  What kind of printer are you using, and what kind of decal paper?
I've only been able to get decent brightness by putting one decal on top of another.  I'm using a laser printer and either Testors or Micromark decal paper. 

EZnKY,  you'll never get satisfactory results using an ink jet printer, they just aren't capable of applying the colour dense enough to the decal paper. You will get something that looks alright from ten feet away, but it sure don't look so hot up close.

I use an ALPS MD 5500 printer and the decal paper is just ordinary stuff, for a Laser printer.
The ALPS can be told to print  WHITE first, then you print the colours over the white, that way the colour is dense and sharp and the background colour will not bleed thru the decal.

Try and find somebody close to you that has an ALPS printer, have a talk to them about what your attempting to create, they should be able to help you out.

Other than that, have a look for somebody who does it for C-A-S-H, if you find out what program they use, then you could do all the artwork and they would only have to charge you for each sheet printed.
The artwork is the biggest cost, so cut that out and it's relatively cheap to get a sheet of decals printed.

regards  greenie

Your wagons are marvellous, one better than the rest. I'd really like to see a picture taken in natural light. Did you ever think about a diorama and giving a wagon a whiff of wear and use?
Great modeling!

Cheers,
Volker

Thanks - that's great to know.
I'm lucky that I have full access to a whole bunch of artwork software, and I know how to use it.
The obstacle is the ALPS printer.

Here's a person who makes decals for anybody who wants them, it might pay you to contact him personally and have a good chat to him.

http://www.modeltruckin.com/store/


regards greenie

ps, from what I have gathered from others who have dealt with him, his prices are quite reasonable.

How do the owners of Alps printers keep them running? The printers went out of production years ago and no other company has produced one with its capabilities. -- Russ

Fantastic!!!!!! ...Allan

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Nice picture, Gordon. -- Russ

Great pic, lots of interesting things to see in that one photo.

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Nice sheep wagon, has lots of character!

I remember seeing a similar one still in use in Nevada about 15-20 years ago. Unfortunately wasn't able to get a photo.

Here are some pics of a 1930s shepherd's wagon, including the interior details:

http://tinyhouseblog.com/travel-trailers/lornas-1930s-shepherds-wagon/ (http://tinyhouseblog.com/travel-trailers/lornas-1930s-shepherds-wagon/)

Hello, here some pictures of the parade of the Üstra to the 125 anniversary.

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Also a link to a little Video (https://youtu.be/GTGyZ3pK7-I) From the Horse omnibus.

This post has been quite for far too long, so -------
It's a 1/12th scale 16 Passenger Omnibus, made from the drawings of J.E.Bishop, was printed in "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Saddler, Oct 1896".

see if this works, eh :-)

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I agree! I love these wagon photos and am hoping to start some wagon projects very soon.

And, yes, the link worked. Thanks!

The one at the top of this page is Russ' vacation home!

Another terrific wagon, greenie, Hope the host site doesn't lose them - maybe you can post them here too?

Stunning! Another masterpiece!

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Another terrific wagon, greenie, Hope the host site doesn't lose them - maybe you can post them here too?

OK, then how do you manage to get any photos into the post without using a host site ? Is there some "black magical art" of submitting photos from your computer onto this forum ? :-)

I finally was able to connect with that link and see the photos of your model. It looks better than the 1:1 scale version. -- Russ

Russ, how do you get the photo's onto this forum, without using a hosting site please ?

Any chance of a tutorial on how to do it please ?

There's a sticky in General Forums to explain how to post photos: http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=3.0 (http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=3.0)

As everyone knows, I've begged and pleaded for us to post images rather than links because, inevitably, links become useless. All you need to do is look at any older thread to see what I mean.

On the other hand, it can be a major pain the neck to reduce a photo to the right size to post here. I bought a Photoshop alternative called Affinity Photo and discovered one wonderful feature is its ability to export any image to a specific size and resolution. Other methods I've tried, including Photoshop, are hit and miss so I truly understand the frustration this forum software creates.

Well, what the heck. We're a small group but we have high standards and can be patient when necessary. Let's just spend a few minutes with some software and post the #&%^@ photos!

Russ

I'm impressed that is a real beautiful wagon!!

Jerry

I have had the photo's reduced, lets see if they now show -----------

Goes well and looks better like the original.

I have had the photo's reduced, lets see if they now show, attempt # 2 -----------

I have had the photo's reduced, lets see if they now show # 3 -----------

looks like it's 2 at a time ---

looks like it's 2 at a time ---

These are rather small photo's, if you want the larger one's, go to the link  below.
Click on any photo and when it opens, click onto the FULL resolution and it opens real big, let's everybody see all the mistakes I made :-)

https://photoland.io/greenie

The photos are as perfect as this website software permits. Thank you for taking the trouble to post them. Along with the photos, the model is as perfect as any I've seen. Most satisfactory. -- Russ

Or try this one http://webresizer.com
Its simple (big buttons and instructions) and its free - I normally set the size between 500 and 650 and set the quality to 90 when done download onto your PC
as they only keep your new sizes for 24 Hours - some times it can be a bit slow but since I'v started using Google Crome its pretty rapid and it does show you the loading in a percentage (bottom left corner)
Barney

That wagon is a real piece of eye candy! What a beauty!

How did you do the lamps?

Plus forgot to say - very nice workmanship and superb paint job and yes how do you do those lamps ?
Barney

I only have a couple of photos of a couple of lamps I made years ago, I'll add them so you can get an idea of how they are made.

The lamps on the Omnibus are of two varieties, the squarish side lamps and the large spotlight at the front.
The side lamps are just a sheet of brass trimmed to be able to bent around to create four sides, done twice for the two and then silver soldered into place.
Into the mill and carefully cut out the two sides to create the area for the light to be seen. The top and bottom bits are just turned from bits of acrylic to the required shapes and glued onto the brass square bit once painted. The red taillights are just bits of busted up  truck taillights and turned to create what should be back there and superglued on. The reflectors are turned bits of ally and polished a stuck inside once it's been painted. Assembled light has a bit of very fine clear plastic cut to shape, folded and shoved into the brass bit as glass face.

The big spotlight is made using a similar technique, only real difference is the polished up ally bit out the front. The body f the spoty is turned O/D and I/D to get it all the correct dimensions, the top and bottom sections are just turned bits of scrap acrylic, the innards is acrylic again, the rear end reflector is polished ally and then it just painted on the inside and outside. The spotty glass is just another bit of clear plastic sheeting I have at hand.

So nothing real special at all, just follow your nose as you make them.

The photo of the bits of the lamps shown are all made from brass, found out the hard way by doing these first ones like that. From there on, any lamps were made using the bits of acrylic, much easier and quicker. Once painted, who can bloody well tell that they are not brass, as per the original ones, eh.

Very interesting, thanks.

Obviously very simple and ridiculously easy to fabricate. I think I'll go in the other room for five minutes and pop out half a dozen of those babies. -- Russ

OK Russ, go for it, ----- the clock starts  N-O-W.    :D

Clear once cut and paste some Photoshop and it's done. So even I could get up to working with Photoshop

Here's another one, it's a 1/12th scale Cart. I found a photo on the web and reckoned it looked alright, so made a few more inquiries and thought, yep, I can do that.

Had to get a bit of help as per dimensions of the vehicle as only that photo to work from, started to draw it on the computer, quite a few adjustments later it was ready.
Into it and this appeared on me bench.

Usual/normal construction methods used, same as for the decals, paint job and anything else that I can't think of now.

First photo is what I found on the web and then different photos of the model.

Any questions, please ask, if no questions, then please enjoy the viewing.  


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Here's the last lot.

Very Nice!

Gordon Birrell

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Zowie carumba!! That is extremely adequate! -- Russ

Quote from: greenie on October 03, 2018, 04:55:42 AM
Here's another one, it's a 1/12th scale Cart. I found a photo on the web and reckoned it looked alright, so made a few more inquiries and thought, yep, I can do that.

Had to get a bit of help as per dimensions of the vehicle as only that photo to work from, started to draw it on the computer, quite a few adjustments later it was ready.
Into it and this appeared on me bench.

Usual/normal construction methods used, same as for the decals, paint job and anything else that I can't think of now.

First photo is what I found on the web and then different photos of the model.

Any questions, please ask, if no questions, then please enjoy the viewing.  


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I confess myself as an admirer of your masterpieces.

Absolutely flawless, as usual! And a very interesting prototype as well. I wonder if those were meat pies, served hot?

Now I'm getting hungry!

Just 'cause I can annoy everybody, here's a tad more information about this little Cart. ---------

There were only two of these Pie Carts ever built, looks like whoever built them has used the old front end's from carriage's that were tossed away. The wheels, axle and springs used look suspiciously like they came from very fine carriages. The new fangled motor vehicle was starting to gain popularity about now, so the old horse drawn drawn stuff was just getting tossed away as nobody wanted it. These two carts were made and used in and around Toowoomba, Qld, they were made roughly from the middle of the 1930's, and used right thru to the early 1950's. I found a photo on the web and became intrigued with it because of it's unusual design, I found out a bit more about them from the Toowoomba Chronicle( Toowoomba newspaper ) and even managed to track down a daughter of one of the drivers of these vehicles, a Gloria Ciesiolka, daughter of one of the two driver's, a Mr Bill Stuart he drove one for many years, she gave me quite a bit of information about the everyday operations of these carts. They were just a backyard operation run from a house on James St, Toowoomba, Qld, they made and baked the pies on the premises out the back in the shed and then loaded them onto these vehicles and sold them all around town. Think of the old pub closing times here in Australia of 6.00PM or 1800hrs, the whole country was kind of into the dark ages about the effects of booze, then hang around for the pictures to shut, after that head for home as nobody was out and about.
I had to make my own drawing for this cart, before I could start to make the model.
Took the finished model out to Oakey, Qld to let Mrs G. Ciesiolka have a look at it, told her I would let her know when it was finished, because of the info she supplied me, took along that colored photo was well. Showed her the colour photo and she said, - "where did you get that photo", I replied -  "off the web, why?". Could have knocked me down with her answer, "it's my brother Billy who got killed in the 2nd world war". Turns out not only Dad sold pies, her elder brother did for a short while as well.
So a bit more history for the cupboard, eh -----------------------

Did the model itself mean nothing to her? -- Russ

Russ, That's What I asked myself about such a grandiose model.

Well, she wanted it come hell or high water, but she is at least nearly 90, so I figured her daughter would wind up with it very soon and the daughter was just ho-hum about it. Suppose if the daughter got it, it would soon be in the bin, got that sort of feeling from the daughter.

Needless to say I allowed heaps of photo's to be taken, but the model is in my cupboard.

Maybe she'd settle for the photos. You should make up an excuse for why you really must keep the model for a while longer, perhaps for an upcoming show or interest from a fictitious museum. The daughter is probably armed with sledgehammers. -- Russ

Fascinating history. It's amazing that you could find someone with a personal connection to the carts, considering only two were ever made.

The only reason that I managed to find anybody who had anything to do with these carts, was that newspaper clipping from 1994.
Without that information to start with, I wouldn't have got anything at all.
Had a name and just went looking in the phone book and just stumbled across the story with the Carts.

I tried 5 times yesterday to up load these photo's, it told me the photo's were too big each time, even though I had reduced them to thumbnails. Bloody well gave up and stuck them into a photo hosting site, let's see if it works this time, eh.

This one is a Market Gardeners Trolley, or Adelaide Trolley (or Lorry) in 1/12th scale, made from the drawings published by J.E.Bishop & Son in The Australian Coachbuilder and Saddler, July 1896. Used a Lorry that's in the museum at Millicent, as a reference for the painting and scrolling.


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Somehow I missed all the postings about your pie cart until today. It's another terrific build! And I'm glad I stumbled upon it because I really like pies. I hope you hold onto the model; it should not even be subjected to a possibility of being binned.

Quote from: greenie on January 02, 2019, 12:55:51 AM
This one is a Market Gardeners Trolley, or Adelaide Trolley (or Lorry) in 1/12th scale, made from the drawings published by J.E.Bishop & Son in The Australian Coachbuilder and Saddler, July 1896. Used a Lorry that's in the museum at Millicent, as a reference for the painting and scrolling.

Beautiful! Another masterpiece!

Another one finished and ready for the cupboard.
This is a 1/12th scale model of a 'WHIM' which is used to drag large logs around the countryside, preferably from the bush site into the sawmill. I bought a book called 'Jinkers and Whims' by a Mr Jack Bradshaw, all about the way they used to do the 'timber getting' from around his backyard. The Whims looked like an interesting model to have a go at, so I contacted Jack Bradshaw and he supplied me with numerous photos and lot's of measurements to make a scale drawing of the biggest Whim that was made.
The full sized vehicle (Whim) was used around the Manjimup area of Western Australia for dragging in rather large trees from the scrub to the sawmill. It could be used with up to twenty, or, even thirty horses if required, depended on how heavy the log was that they had to drag around. The wheels were 3.1 mts ( 10'-2") diameter and the steel arch could accommodate a log at least 6 to 7 ft across, depended on where the point of balance was on the log, even if the log was up to 40 feet long. It was made approx. mid to late 1930's and used up to around the late 1940's. It was eventually replaced with secondhand ex war machinery.
Left out in the scrub to rot away for years, until it was rescued and bought into the wood mill, where it was then put on display for another couple of decades. Eventually the local 'men's shed' got hold of it after the sawmill closed it's door's for good, they have done a few running repairs and painted it, to try and protect it from the weather and have put it on display again, this time at a local park.

In America they used something similar called 'Big Wheels', but most of them had a straight axle and you could only place a small load UNDER the straight axle, where-as with the 'Whims' they had a rather large arched axle and you could load bigger logs than  what you could with a Big Wheels.

The first picture shows the full sized vehicle and you can clearly see how large the wheels actually are ( photo swiped from the web ).

The last two photo's are just to give you a perspective of just how bloody big this Whim actually is, there's a 1/12th scale Market Gardener's Trolley, parked under the arch of the model Whim, both are made to 1/12th scale.





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Most satisfactory! -- Russ

Wow that's really nice.  Beautiful work.

Jerry

Under this link (https://ibb.co/album/b237dv), the pictures of the very beautiful successful car can be looked more comfortably.

Stunning work!

     Many of the American log carriers had an arched rather then square mount to carry the logs.  The teamster would chain the log to the carrier with the tongue almost straight up in the air.  Once the log was secured, the teamster would then pull on the tongue and raise the front of the log off of the ground.  Many American loggers used either oxen or mules instead of horses.  most of the logging teams used 6 or more pairs of draft animals to move the loads. 

     There are still many small logging operators throughout the US who use draft animals when logging smaller tracts of forest as they do little damage to smaller trees which will be allowed to grow and be harvested later.  One logger I know down near Keysville, Va has a team of oxen named Tom and Jerry. Logging selectively with draft animals leaves the forest in better shape and can lead to a sustainable harvest which does not destroy streams and other elements of the ecology in the forest.  Additionally, many well trained draft teams can be started toward the log dump and then left on their own to get there.

A couple of photos showing the Whim loaded with a small load.

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Just interesting to see in a different way than I suspected. Only where now the horse pulls with us the train chain is placed by the horse, just once around the tree trunk and then secured with a nail.

Here's a device with a related function that I believe was designed by a guy who once lived on large farm on land granted to his ancestors by Geo. III, right across the street from me. His Packer Stump Puller & Wall Builder was said to be a lot more versatile and stronger than other devices.
For building walls there was a sort of heavy duty 'ice tong' that gripped a stone in a pair of shallow drill holes (about thumbnail diameter and 1/2 in. deep).

The area around here is loaded with stonewalls. A couple years ago I discovered that many of of them lining this street (old pentway) and a few other local walls in the general area had pairs of small drill holes on opposite sides of all the largest stones. I have searched, but never found other walls with those paired holes.

I believe they were built with this device and wrote a magazine article about it (never got published).

The photo in excerpt from local history newsletter shows a couple of the pullers working a few blocks from here.

(You can click on photos to enlarge them.)

A nearby historical society said they thought they still have the iron parts of one of these pullers somewhere outside their building. I hope to go look for it.

Quote from: Design-HSB on February 15, 2019, 04:33:01 AM
Just interesting to see in a different way than I suspected. Only where now the horse pulls with us the train chain is placed by the horse, just once around the tree trunk and then secured with a nail.

G'day Helmut, got any photos showing how the chains were held onto the log with just that one nail, please.

Bill, one hell of an interesting and unusual device that Stump Puller/Rock Carrier, eh.  :o :o :o :o :o

Wonderful work and cool stuff!

Up here in northern New England when the horse replaced the ox in the 1860's most of the moving of timber took place in winter using sleds to
haul directly to the mill or more usually to the nearest river or lake.

A typical two-sled powered by a good team of horses could easily move a 7 ton load over the ice
roads.

From about 1900 on tractors came into common use though horse power was used well into the 1940's
on many operations.

This past weekend I had the opportunity to test out a newly constructed circa 1926 sled. We didn't have the
chains setup yet so we couldn't carry a load with it but it was a ton of fun anyway.

The sled itself measure over 33 feet long and weighs close to a ton itself. It was built from original factory drawings
by a group of students at our local Technical school using timber from several large oak trees that were blown down
during a severe wind storm last year.

All good fun!

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Quote from: greenie on February 14, 2019, 05:53:09 PM
A couple of photos showing the Whim loaded with a small load.

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The hook-up doesn't look right.  The chain should be suspended from the arch so that it lifts the log off the ground as the team pulls forward.
As shown in the photo, the log would dig into the ground as the team pulled.

The big chain in the middle of the log is positioned so that the log is of the ground at the middle and rear, this is to allow the log to be a bit nose heavy, so when the motive power stops, then the nose of the log will dig into the ground and all proceedings will just come to a stop.
Failure to load the log nose heavy, will see the motive power ( either horses or bullocks ) run over from the rear when you want to stop, not a nice thing to do to the animals.
There were a few horses and bullocks killed and injured, before it was worked out that you needed the log to be nose heavy.

By having the log nose heavy, when you started the team pulling, the nose came up of the ground and so long as forward pressure was applied, the nose stayed clear of the ground and it all just kept rolling along nicely.

Here's a picture showing how the Whim was first used, it had a Jinker attached to the front of the long bar on the Whim, so it was used as a four wheel vehicle. Somebody had the Jinker collapse and were stuck out in the scrub with just the Whim, so they used the Whim as a stand alone vehicle.
OK, it wasn't very successful until a few kinks had been ironed out, like how to stop it killing the motive power, when that was worked out, the Whim then became a stand alone vehicle and was used right up to the mid 1950's in Western Australia's Jarrah and Karri forests.

Thanks for the explanation which now makes sense.

Quote from: greenie on March 06, 2019, 05:32:59 PM
The big chain in the middle of the log is positioned so that the log is of the ground at the middle and rear, this is to allow the log to be a bit nose heavy, so when the motive power stops, then the nose of the log will dig into the ground and all proceedings will just come to a stop.
Failure to load the log nose heavy, will see the motive power ( either horses or bullocks ) run over from the rear when you want to stop, not a nice thing to do to the animals.
There were a few horses and bullocks killed and injured, before it was worked out that you needed the log to be nose heavy.

By having the log nose heavy, when you started the team pulling, the nose came up of the ground and so long as forward pressure was applied, the nose stayed clear of the ground and it all just kept rolling along nicely.

Hence the advancement from Stiff Tongue Big Wheels to the Slip Tongue Big Wheels in the Western Pine Forests, to protect the teams and workers.

Here's a bit of video (2m 41s total, look starting about 15 seconds for a few seconds more.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWRscujkPxU

I feel rather sympathetic toward the horse. -- Russ

That Belgian Draft Horse sure is a good example of decent horse flesh, specifically bred to do the job that he excels at doing. :-)

     Many of the larger draft animals were originally breed to be the transport for armored knights in addition to doing the heavy lifting.  IMHO, I would rather have a team of oxen then one of horses as they aren't as skittish, work a bit more slowly and in general can out pull a pair of draft horses.  Strong, gentle, steady workers who if well kept would work for more then 20 years.
     Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has since the beginning kept oxen as draft animals and I can remember Tom and Jerry who were a matched pair used to pull a delivery cart through the restoration.  For a number of years the young son of their handler would dress in period costume and lead them down Duke of Gloucester Street by a light cord tied to the nose ring of the lead ox.  It was great to see a 55 pound 9 year old controlling almost 2 tons of muscle with a cord which was to light to be used on a dog leash.  When they would stop in front of one of the stores, they would be restrained by a wooden block with a ring through one side tied to the cord as a reminder.   

Tis me again to annoy you once more.

This time it's a Bakers Waggonette made to 1/12th scale.

Just finished this one today, it has taken me just over 6 months of graft to get it finished, sometimes life just gets in the way of a decent hobby, eh.

The original full sized vehicle is on display at the Redlands Museum in Cleveland, Qld.
This vehicle was originally used around the Redlands District for bread deliveries, so now it's where it belongs, in the local Museum. It was reconditioned and given a liquid overhaul many years ago by an expert carriage builder by the name of Alex Hamilton.
He was the last of the old time carriage builders from around Brisbane, Qld.
His family had been Carriage-Makers at Kedron, Qld for about a century, that's his grandfather and then his father joined the business, so Alex just had too follow along into the same business.

I had to do a series of drawings before I could start to make the model, I didn't have a drawing similar, so plenty of photo's and lot's of measurements with a lot more time spent at the computer doing the drawings.

Mostly timber construction, with a few bits of sheet acrylic used for the wheel fellies and used Acrylic for the shafts as well. A lot of brass was used for most of the metal work, then a bit of steel turned down for the tyres and key-steel used for the axles.
All nuts and bolts are hand made using bronzing rods for the bolts and K & S square brass section  for the nuts.
Paint is just ordinary enamel house paint and the decals are all done in house using an ALPS MD 5500 printer, bloody magic bit of gear that ALPS printer, you can make a much better decal than what you could ever do with a Laser or Inkjet printer.
Each wheel has 67 decals added to it, so for the four wheels that's 248 decals, don't ask how many on the complete model as I have never bothered to count each and every one of them. It took me about a week, to put all the decals onto the model.

Plenty of photo's showing what medium I used for the construction and then lot's more showing the finished model.

The last two photo's are of the full sized vehicle at the Museum.

So have a look and any questions, then please ask.



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Beautiful, well done Greenie.

Bill

Your models are always perfect and this one is yet another example of fastidious craftsmanship. Most satisfactory.

How do you make the spoke shape transition from round to oval?

Russ

G'day Russ, have a look thru this lot, think it explains most things I do, if not, then ask and I'll attempt to explain it.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/965313566821742/permalink/2020965034589918/


regards  Greenie   ;)

All these models are simply fantastic. One of my favorites things on here. Thanks for sharing them with all.

Thank you gentlemen for the kind words, they definately are appreciated.


regards. Greenie.   ;D

As has been already said, your work is always a joy to see and read about.
I also hope it will be inspiring. At some point I still intend to try to convert a Jordan popcorn wagon into a Freihofer bakery delivery wagon for the New England Berkshire & Western. Your latest bakery waggonette can help motivate to start.

Nice project but why not start from scratch? The two wagons do not have the same undercarriages. The popcorn wagon has a typical light wagon heavy carriage type from hounds where as the bakery wagon has a heavy platform type front hounds.  It would be a shame to destroy the popcorn. What scale is the popcorn wagon? Did you build it? Was it a kit or from scratch?

Bill

5thwheel, The popcorn wagon is a Jordon HO styrene kit that the club gave me as a possible starting point for making a Freihofer wagon.
The idea was to use most of the popcorn wagon wheels and shafts and any other parts I could as is and to use the popcorn body sides as templates for the general overall size of the Freihofer wagon. The scratchbuilt body would be made to look like the Freihofer wagon and fit the popcorn frame(?). Part of the reason I haven't started this is because the front wheels on the popcorn wagon look too small for modeling the bread wagon. I know VERY little about wagons and I don't think I'm ready to tackle HO wagon wheels.

I also once knew where there was a Freihofer wagon on display and hoped to get photos ad measurements, but it has since been moved and I haven't gotten a reply from the company that bought Freihofer some years ago telling me where the surviving/restored wagon(s) are now.

I remember there were still horsedrawn Freihofer wagons when I was a little kid and the horse pulling the one in the neighborhood I was in would slowly walk from one end of the street to the other, then patiently wait for the driver to finish his door-to-door deliveries. Some of the wagons had pneumatic tires by then. There were still wagons in Troy, NY (where the NEB&W is) and I thought having at least one wagon and driver making deliveries in Troy on the layout would help emphasize the time period.

Holy cow! Once again I am totally in awe of your work! The brass work alone is marvelous, and the completed wagon is a masterpiece!

speechless again - absolutely stunning
Barney

Here's the latest one, just finished it.

This is a 1/12th scale Pole Sulky, done from the drawings of J.E.Bishop and printed in "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, Jan 1902.
The Sulky can be used with the pole and two horses, or, remove the pole and add two shafts for a single horse.
The seat moves to the rear and forward, to be able to balance the vehicle, so not too much weight is on the pole or shafts.

Totally scratchbuilt once again, using the different methods as previously described for the other models.

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Whoa, that is another excellent model.

Ho-hum, another superb and perfect model. -- Russ

Beautiful!!

Jerry

Magnificent!! You could show these photos to anyone and they'd think it was a full-sized, restored original from a museum.

Check this out, has dimensions etc. From American Horse Drawn Vehicles by Rittenhouse.

G'day Bill, the full working drawing for that vehicle from Rittenhouse, is published in "Hitch Wagons for City Driving", by the Carriage Museum of America, ISBN-1-880499-13-4.

The particular drawing is on page 347, called 'Improved Construction of a Low-Down Wagon'.

You can buy the book and get the "low down" on the wagon before building one.

Lawton, go stand in the corner. -- ssuR

And another done —

This is an English Darby Cart done to 1/12th scale once again, made from the drawings of J.E.Bishop and printed in The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, Dec 1907. It's only a Pony sized vehicle, used mainly for going into town to do a bit of shopping, so it's a bit smaller than some of the other models I've made.

Usual methods of construction as what's been described before, tried to do some 'Regency Stripes' and it worked out rather well. It's just a big decal, printed on the Alps MD 5500 and cut and pasted to each side.   

Being confined to the shed is working out OK for the time being, not getting interrupted by daughters asking for Dad's help, so long as I don't get this dreaded virus, it's gunna work just fine being banished out into the shed. :-)



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I'd love to see how you make those beautiful wheels.
Carlo

Greenie, you linked the images from Imagur and, at the moment, they're not showing. I would guess Imagur is having server problems, a least in my region. Once again, it is necessary to load in actual images to this site. Links break and sites shut down and then none of us can see what you built! -- Russ

Always have a look thru here ------------------------  :-)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/965313566821742/?fref=nf

Beautiful work, as always!

Hi Carlo, have a look at this lot and all will  be revealed --------------------------  :-)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/965313566821742/permalink/2020965034589918/

This time I was able to see the model. Superb as usual. -- Russ

Old fuel wagon, more photos when I can get inside the fence.

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Gordon Birrell
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonbirrell/

Greeniw,  Have you shown how you make your decals? They are terrific, and like Carlo, I'd love to see how you make your wheels.
But, alas, not a member of Facebook, so can't see them on the link to posted.

G'day Bill, the decals are made using very old technology, I use an old Windows XP computer and an Alps MD 5500 printer.
I have to use this old XP to be able to tell the old Alps what to do, I have tried a newer version of Windows, but it wont tell the printer what to do.
I create the designs using CorelDraw then just print them out.
I try to find an old horse drawn vehicle similar to what I am making and use the old designed scrollwork, that way the model looks about period correct.
The modern scrolling looks like somebody has done it whilst high on meth, it just doesn't cut it for me.

Nothing really special about it at all.

The following photo's show the vehicle that I used as inspiration for the latest model, you can see the old original scrollwork and Regency Stripes I swiped and used for the model.


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Quote from: greenie on April 01, 2020, 03:30:32 PM
Hi Carlo, have a look at this lot and all will  be revealed --------------------------  :-)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/965313566821742/permalink/2020965034589918/

Wow! Really interesting to see how you made the wheels. What a lot of work!

Thanks, Greenie. I remembered that you use an Alps printer.
Do you have drawings of your various carts & wagons that you import into Corel Draw to use as a template for designing your decals?
The decals fit your models so precisely, and given all the curved surfaces I wondered I how you did that.
Also I cannot see any halftone dots or other dithering patterns on your decals, how do you accomplish that? Do you print in solid colors for each color?

G'day Bill, I import very few drawings into CorelDraw, it is mostly drawn by myself in CorelDraw and altered to suit the model.
If I do import any drawings, it is only to chase the design and make it suit the model, circles are easily made, straight and curved lines the same.
Once the model is made and unpainted, I bring it inside to the computer desk and measure everything, so that it will suit/fit the model.
Once the decal has been drawn in CorelDraw, I print it out on a shitty old Brother HL-2142 printer as a solid black colour, then cut each section/piece out and test fit it onto the unpainted model and adjust anything if it's  necessary.

If you operate the CorelDraw correctly, there is NO halftone dots or ANY dithering patterns created, you just tell the Alps printers to do it that way.
So each colour is printed onto the decal sheet as a solid colour, that's what an old Alps printer will do for you.

The other excellent thing about the Alps Printers is you can tell the printer to retract the paper after each colour, that way everything lines up perfectly.

So if I have to print Cyan, Yellow or Magenta, I undercoat those colours with a WHITE first, this eliminates any bleed thru of the body colours.

Black, Silver and Gold do not need any White undercoat, as they are very dense colours.

OK, they are getting old now and the colours are starting to become scarce, but the Alps printers shit all over the Laser and Inkjet printers for decals.

Gordon    That old fuel wagon I like ;D But all the Gas Station signs are COOL there's some Cash this guy has wrapped up in all these signs.  I know somebody that has a sign pole from a old service station I can buy cheap $ I always wanted one for years...but ill have to pay someone to haul it for me and pay a sign company to install it and Electrify the pole for lights and who knows the cost for that ???

Thanks, Greenie How many custom colors are available for the Alps? Besides gold & silver, are there more beyond CMYK?
You have good colors that seem like they are a lot more than printing one soild color over another

There are other colours available, but I only use the standard colours of White, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Gold and Silver.
Ebay has these other colours, but they want to sell them in bulk lots and they are quite expensive, so I haven't used any of them.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Elephants-Rocket-Spot-Color-Ink-All-11-colors-each-3-ZK-MDC-A113-ALPS-printer/302913121466?hash=item4687076cba:g:Rs8AAOSwxudbZa9i

Outstanding excellence
Barney

Another 1/12th scale model, this time it is a Brisbane Sulky, so named because of it was very popular in Brisbane Qld as it was easy to enter and exit the vehicle with the way the shafts were bent. The bent shafts go from the tip, right thru to the rear as one piece, which makes it different to a Bent Shaft Sulky. Made once again from the drawings of J.E.Bishop, printed in The Australasian Coachbuilder & Wheelwright, June 1911. The scroll work I swiped from a vehicle that Ian Stewart-Koster lined many years ago, made the scrolls on the ALPS MD5500 as decals.


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My greatest respect for your extraordinary model making.

Another remarkable work of art. (But again you uploaded linked images and eventually they will disappear, resulting in great loss to all of us.) -- Russ

Russ, when I try to reduce the size of the photos, they then become about the size of thumbnails and become useless to look at for detail.

Is there a way to reduce the size of the photo, to the req 230KB max and keep the size of the photo as is, namely a large photo?

Is there a way to reduce the size of the photo, to the req 230KB max and keep the size of the photo as is, namely a large photo?

Greenie, the short answer is yes, but it depends on what software you have. I can change the size and the resolution of photos independently.
Do you have a way to see what the resolution of your photos are? If you can make the resolution 72 dpi you should be able to post them larger than thumbnails.
Others can help with more specifics, I'm not sure about the exact how.

Another option that I see, but don't know how to implement is the ability to poat a photo on the forum and the viewer can click on it to enlarge it. here's an example:
http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=3031.0
Even those enlargements aren't as big as your photos in your thread, but may Ray Dunakin can help explain how he posts larger photos?

Thank you Bill, I'll give it a try and see what eventuates.

Beautiful work as always!

Hi greenie

What a beauty, your Sulky. The dimensions, the colors - everything in perfect harmony ! A piece of art indeed !
And at the first glance I had a "deja-vu" experience. No, no, I don't want to hijack your thread here, but those carriages I had seen some years ago,
when I researched the fate of that heavy monster in the foreground.
As you live in Brisbane, I believe you know the story behind that photo here (And there are such Sulkies in the background?) ...

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Kind regards
Peter

Bill - so when you go into Photos (I also have a Mac OSX) Thats the photos that comes with the Mac as standard -where is this Preview Button Perhaps it me But can not find it anywhere !!!
Barney

And I forgot to say - Your models are of the Highest Quality and the building of them true excellence of art - just keep them coming
Barney   

Barney - to avoid hijacking Greenie's thread here, I made a new post about finding and using
PREVIEW on a Mac here:
http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=3064.0

Hope it helps. If you have questions, I'll do my best to answer them there.

Thanks Greenie for the email very useful
And Thanks Bill for the "article" I can now go out to play
Barney

Here's a little bit of true blue Australiana, I doubt if anybody from overseas will know about the name Furphy and just what it means to an Australian.

It is a 1/9th scale model of a Number 4 Furphy Water Cart.
Furphy has a number system for all the different Water Carts that they used to make, they used the same barrel, but put it on different sized carts, hence the number system to identify each different type when ordered.

The reason I have gone to 1/9th scale is because I bought a miniature cast brass water tank end from Furphy's of Shepparton. Didn't take me long and I now have as many end caps as I need, all made from cast resin.

I contacted Furphy's from Shepparton and they very kindly sent me the working drawings for this No 4 Cart, so this is what eventuated.

Being a No 4, it has the larger spoked wheels, 3'3'' with a 3.5" wide rim, spokes are made from steel rod, with small cast iron hub fittings, for the spokes and steel rim to attach it all together.

Drew it all to size and then made it from that drawing.


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Outstanding. -- Russ

Excellent!

What is the purpose of the little "horn" on the spigot?

When filling a bucket, it can get very heavy for a wee child or woman to hang onto, so you just drop the bucket handle over that little horn and when the bucket is full, turn of the tap and pick up the full bucket. It saves splashing any water around and wasting any, it's a rather simple idea that works extremely well. :-)

For those that have never heard of the word Furphy, here's a tad of reading --------------------------------

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furphy


Now that little story even contains one or two whopping big 'Furphy's'.

 "Many Furphy water carts were used to take water to Australian Army personnel during World War I in Australia, Europe and the Middle East.[1] "


Whoever wrote that sentence above, did not even bother to find out if that sentence above is TRUE, or just a Furphy ( commonly referred to as B/S  )

Not ONE original Furphy Water Cart, ever went overseas with the Australian troops in World War 1.
They were used in the Army staging camps in Melbourne and Sydney whilst the troops were waiting to be sent overseas, so when a bunch of very bored soldiers were gathered around the Water Carts, many B/S stories eventuated.

Spread by the soldiers who supposedly "were in the know".

 "  In his book Memories of a Signaller, Harold Hinckfuss "

Appears he's even telling Furphy's, eh, remember that not ONE Furphy Water Cart ever left Australia's shores, for the European or Egyptian theaters of war.

The water carts that went overseas were made by two other companies, they used a similar sized water tank as a Furphy, but they were NOT Furphy Water Carts.
Furphy of Shepperton, Victoria were only a small company and were not geared up enough at the outbreak of the First World War and were UNABLE to fill the required order in time, that is why the order for Water Carts went to the other two companies.

So that is how the word 'Furphy' became an everyday word for Australians, it's a polite way of saying ---- "your telling Bull$hit".

By using the words --- ' that's got to be a Furphy', ---- it saved your teeth from getting a sever battering from some D/H, who has taken offense with you, if you used the words B/S directly to his face.

Just another weird bit of trivia, that some will see the humour and others wont.  :-)

sometimes the desire is the father of thought. Thank you for the story.

Greenie another interesting cart, well done.

Ray, Just guessing...might the horn be to hang a bucket while it's being filled?

Quote from: greenie on August 10, 2020, 10:59:22 PM
When filling a bucket, it can get very heavy for a wee child or woman to hang onto, so you just drop the bucket handle over that little horn and when the bucket is full, turn of the tap and pick up the full bucket. It saves splashing any water around and wasting any, it's a rather simple idea that works extremely well. :-)

Ah, I see! Thanks.

Just finished the Chinese/ Mongolian two wheel cart. It is my first project since getting tremors in my hands and loosing much of the feeling in my finger tips. The scale is 1/12 th.  I used photos and drawings of an original furnished by Brian Simpson in UK.

Another view.

And again.

Bill,
that came out great - what an interesting and quite unusual prototype! Which scale is it?

Cheers,
Volker

The problems in your hands do not show up on the model. Most satisfactory. -- Russ

Volker, it is in 1/12th scale.

Thank you Russ.

Stunning! You've done an excellent job on an interesting and unusual wagon.

I'm sorry to hear about the problems with your hands.

Pssst  Ray, -----------  a C-A-R-T has only 2 wheels ---------------- a Waggon has 4 wheels,  -----  so the dictionary tells me.  ;D  ::)

Good one Bill, looks quite OK to me.  :o :o :o

Quote from: greenie on September 04, 2020, 07:38:31 PM
Pssst  Ray, -----------  a C-A-R-T has only 2 wheels ---------------- a Waggon has 4 wheels,  -----  so the dictionary tells me.  ;D  ::)

Ah, I see! I was not aware of that distinction.

Completed a few more Furphy Water Carts.
First photo L to R,  shows a number 2, then a number 4 and a number 8.


(https://i.postimg.cc/6pfkGB98/IMG-6682.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)



Second photo L to R, shows a number 3 and a number 5.



(https://i.postimg.cc/c6qmFtcd/IMG-6691.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Up to your usual impeccably adequate standards. Thanks for posting those beauties. -- Russ

Impressive as ever!

The originals had sublime writing on the ends of the tanks. If I see this correctly, is it also replicated with these excellent models, isn't it? If so, I would like to see a picture of it and learn more about the conversion into the model.

Hi Helmut, I bought a 1/9th scale end cap from the Furphy factory and then made a mould of it, cast all the end caps from that.
These end caps had advertising on them, a rather novel way of getting the Water Carts to be noticed.

(https://i.imgur.com/ZeF1iRb.jpg)


Over the decades, these end caps were replaced with more writing on them, so now you can date when the Water Tank was made.
The end cap that I have, is from the period of 1942 thru to 1965, that's why I'm attempting to make the 8 different tanks Furphy's had for sale, in that period.


(https://i.imgur.com/MregdS3.png)

Have you ever thought about drawing the lettering and then etching them as a plate? Then I would stamp the plate. I've already done this with buffer plates made of 1 mm thick brass. You could press that e.B. into a rubber plate.

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buntbahn.de%2Ffotos%2Fdata%2F7179%2F13PICT_20170722_124412.JPG&hash=f34b8b556d1eabf7ef7ac1871ea0477d291c4d13)

This buffer plate was created in this way.

I'm curious to see what happens next.

Addendum:

Of course, as a counter-storage you can also take a section of a pipe into which you press your tank end.

Optionally also 3D printing as a model for molding.

I would like to see the results of a collaboration between you guys. -- Russ

Just Incredible - but so nice A joy to look at
Barney

Another two for the cupboard, this time it's a # 7 with a pole for two horses, then a # 9 which goes on the back of a Lorry or a light truck. Only got one to go now for the full compliment that was being sold by Furphy, as at 1942.




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Modeling up to your usual adequate standards. -- Russ

Marvelous!

Eventually finished the Furphy Water Carts as what was being sold by Furphy in 1942, I used an end cap that was in production from 1942 thru to 1965. This is the range they sold then and there was NO number 1 was being sold by 1942, it was a very earlier version of the cart.

The number 6 Water Cart was NOT drawn by a horse/horses, it was drawn by a tractor or a small truck, first one made went to the Royal Australian Air-force, for use in the convoys up to Darwin in the Second World War. It proved so successful, that it was then put into production and became available to anybody who wanted one.

Had to a drawing first and this time used Brass for the trailer and ally for the tank, end caps are just cast resin, the tyres and wheels I cheated and bought some 3D stuff, effin' expensive for what you get aint it, eh. Managed to add removable wheel nuts to. :-)


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Most satisfactory. -- Russ

Beautiful work!!

Jerry

I admire this overall performance of the different water wagons.

Fantastic! Great work on that brass frame.

Some might remember that I made a 1/12th scale Whim a couple of years ago and put a photo of it with a small log hung under it. Well I eventually had time to make another much larger log and finished it yesterday. This one sure does look like it's a lot heavier than the previous rather small log.




Small log ---------------



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Decent sized "toothpick" ----------------


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I really love your precise and clean models, so please excuse me uttering my honest opinion about the log: It looks so unrealistic that it completely destroys the otherwise fantastic model's impression.

Volker

I'm afraid I agree with Volker. The model is utterly superb, as are all your others. The log? Well, maybe you could go outside, find a branch with suitable bark of about the right diameter, cut off a chunk, and replace the shiny new log with it .... -- Russ

OK, needed that honest appraisal, so it looks like I need some MATT paint to kill that bit of shiny on the log, any recommendations for a really FLAT enamel that will do the job properly?

Quote from: greenie on March 21, 2021, 02:12:26 PM
OK, needed that honest appraisal, so it looks like I need some MATT paint to kill that bit of shiny on the log, any recommendations for a really FLAT enamel that will do the job properly?

A group here has been having this debate of late.  Dullcoat is the classic, but the Army Painter and Alclad matt clear products seem to get the best reports.

I like the new log!  It gives the piece a bit of mysterious feeling.

Another Water Cart, this time it is a "Sunshine" Water Cart. Made to 1/9th scale so as can be comparable in size to the Furphy Water Carts.

Started with just a photo, as that is the only one that anybody has ever seen.

Think it might have been made specially for a show and then that one pic was taken, as NOBODY has ever seen a Water Cart like this one in the photo.
Bit different to the way a Furphy Water Cart was made, I somehow think if it was going to made as opposition to Furphy, then it would have cost a lot more to make, as the simple ideas that Furphy used were far cheaper compared to this Sunshine Water Cart.

So the one in the photo somehow might have been the one and only ever made.

Usual methods of construction use in making this model, brass for the wheel rims and spokes, wood for the shafts and cross-members and aluminium for the tank.

The end caps were made from 3mm sheet red acrylic, by another gentleman by the name of Ian Stewart-Koster, he used a laser to burn out the shallow yellow bits, this left the red highlights, then he used a heat gun to soften the acrylic end caps and pushed the domed shape into them whilst they were hot.

I had to splash a lot of yellow paint onto each end cap, then scraped the yellow paint from the red highlights, even had to paint the inside rear of each end cap white, to make the red acrylic colour stand out.



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That's beautiful! Great model, and I love the colors.

Looks like a relatively easy model given your skills and yet another superb beauty. -- Russ

Just used the standard colours that Sunshine Harvester Works used on all their machinery, predominantly red and yellow.


https://rustys.net.au/products/sunshine-harvester-works-ken-arnold

Greenie, another great looking cart. You have presented it very appropriately for a one-of-a-kind prototype show piece. Like the colors.

SUPERB WORKMANSHIP - perfect replica of reality
Barney

Here's the next one, it's a a Bullock Dray, made to 1/12th scale once again.

Saw the full sized vehicle in the Cobb & Co Museum at Toowoomba and used the full sized vehicle for reference to make this model.
Took lots of photos and lots of measurements, then drew it to 1/12th scale and made the model direct from the drawings.

Used all the usual methods for the construction of the model,  and the full sized vehicle is of a very simple construction, as are most bullock Drays.

OK, the model is cleaner than the original, but it aint anywhere near as old, eh. :-)

First photo is of the original at Toowoomba, followed by photo's of the model.



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Nice wagon!
Did you make the wheels, or buy them?
How or where?
Carlo

I like the simplicity of the dray and the excellence of the model.

Ho-hum, another astounding model .... -- Russ

Nice, simple wagon, expertly crafted!

How did they hold the support pegs in place when folded up?

The legs were held up with just a strip of leather, one end nailed to the vehicle and the other end was folded over the leg and shoved onto a pin to hold it all up.

First photo shows the leather strip on the pole just hanging down and the leg is in use.

Fourth photo shows the strip hanging down near the rear leg.

Easy as that lot. :-)

Beautiful!!

Jerry

Very nice better than the real thing
Barney

Hi Carlo -------- Nice wagon!
                        Did you make the wheels, or buy them?
                        How or where?

A Waggon has FOUR wheels and a Cart has only TWO wheels.

Have a look thru this lot as to how to make the wheels. :-)


https://www.facebook.com/groups/306290910852825

Here's a 1/12th scale 'Butchers Carcase Cart', made from the drawings of J.E.Bishop and Sons, printed in "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, Feb, 1911.

Followed the paint scheme of the 'Newport and Tancred' Sydney Meat Waggon, to keep it with that group of vehicles.

The carcase's were just thrown into the back of this type of vehicle, like stacking logs, not very hygienic at all, eh.


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(https://i.postimg.cc/dQmFhcRF/IMG-7084.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/LhXwW70Q)


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Yet another stunning masterpiece. -- Russ

Well done, and excellent paint job.

Bernhard

Admirably beautiful.

Those carts must have had quite an odor. Excellent workmanship as always on the model.

Stunning!

-----------------  Those carts must have had quite an odor.  -----------

Somebody told me that they were lined with sheets of Zinc, if so, then they would have been able to hose it out, at the the end of each day.

If just bare timber inside of them, yes, they would be a bit 'wiffy' after a while, eh. :-)

That is exquisite work.

Here is the latest, it is a 1/12th scale Low-Set Milk Cart, or you could call it a 'Milk Float', for very obvious reasons. Original drawings for this vehicle was published in "The Coachbuilder and Saddler", June 1899. Used the normal construction methods, as previously been stated, used Enamel House Paint and the decals are made on the Alps DM5500 printer. Scratchbuilt once again, most nuts and bolts are hand made, BUT, there are a few machine made nuts and bolts used as well, so not 100% Scratched, eh. ::)  ::)  ::)  ::)


(https://i.postimg.cc/fWps6Jjg/IMG-7150.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Sj6H9QPW)


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(https://i.postimg.cc/tJVKXNtv/IMG-7156.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/q64bwnF2)


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(https://i.postimg.cc/5t2NfDHP/IMG-7167.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/HrFC2Z95)

Another adequate miniature, and a rather attractive one at that. -- Russ

Thank you Russ, coming from you that surely means something, eh. :-) :-) :-)

Beautiful + a superb bit of workmanship 
Barney

Great wagon!
How did you get that metallic finish on your brass parts?
Carlo

Sweet! It looks immaculate.

Quote from: Carlo on June 28, 2022, 05:41:44 AMGreat wagon!
How did you get that metallic finish on your brass parts?
Carlo

Hi Carlo, have a look at this web site ---------------- 


https://www.molotow.com/anwendungen/marker-anwendungen/liquid-chrometm

That's the stuff.  Out local model and art shops stock it.

Absolutely breath-taking! Another masterpiece!

Beautiful!

Here's a 1/12th scale model of a 'Speeding Buggy', once again from the original drawings of J.E.Bishop, printed in "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Saddler, September, 1893".

Used the colour scheme of another old buggy from Adelaide, this time it's a bit of a 'poverty pack', as NO scrolling or lining was on the vehicle from Adelaide, so just followed along with that paint scheme.

This buggy is just another version of a Piano Box Buggy, compared to a Piano Box Buggy there are a few details that are different, so the 'old timers' used another name, to differentiate between them.


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What a beautifully simple and elegant little carriage. Pinstriping probably would be superfluous. Most satisfactory. -- Russ

Thanks Russ it is a very basic vehicle, nothing flash at all, eh. :-)

Simple, elegant and flawlessly modeled.I hope some day there is a museum that preserves and displays  your work, which deserves no less.

WoW!  That's a wonderful model. I particularly love the simple elegant and thin-profile wheels. Are those scratchbuilt, 3D printed, or what? How do you make them?
Carlo

Mind Blowing - exceptional workmanship
Barney 

Making Scale Model Wooden Spoked Wheels.

This just ONE way of making them, others have different ideas than this lot, so it IS NOT the one and only way. If anybody has other ideas about making wooded spoked wheels for models then please let me know, always interested in other ideas, never know I might even swipe them for my own use, eh. :-)

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Simple yet stunning!

This must be at least the third time you've answered the question of how you build wheels. Last time you posted a link and I saved the step by step as a PDF. It is the same but much shorter than what you have posted here. Thank you for the extra photos and info. -- Russ

Russ, I have attempted to show Carlo a couple of times via Facebook, but I don't think he is on Facebook, as he keeps asking about it. So hopefully Carlo can now see, how I actually make them. :-)

I got the SBS this time. Thank you for posting... again.
Sorry I missed it before.
Carlo

Carlo, spero che ora tu possa vedere di cosa si tratta e realizzerai ruote in legno a raggi con scala?

Greenie, Si Grazie mille!

Actually, I'm Italian-American and live in the USA.
Carlo

A 1/12th scale model of a Mutton Truck, original working drawing posted in "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright" February 1904. Found a picture marked as a 'Beef Cart', from the Victorian State Library and thought those carcasses are NOT BEEF at all. I seemed to remember that I had a drawing, similar to this so called 'Beef Cart' and lo and behold, it turns out it is actually a picture of a Mutton Truck with sheep carcasses being loaded from an abattoir in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

Figured it would make an unusual model so why not , eh.
Not your everyday 'sulky/buggy/waggon' at all, but then again, it was actually a vehicle that was used and is part of history.

Finished the Mutton Truck months ago and then went looking for sheep carcasses, found a 3D model and then had three different sizes made, then had them cast from resin. This took a while, but eventually all the ducks were lined up and here it is.

Sorry, could not supply the smell, or, get the flies for you, eh. :-)


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Now that is something different! Very nice!

A truly superb and unusual model. Most satisfactory. -- Russ

I guess "sheep carcasses" don't crop up often in 3D models!  Must have taken some searching but the result is well worth it. Brilliant! 
Les

Sheep carcasses in 3D form are about as rare as "rockin' horse turds", took two of us quite a while before one even came up in a google search. Eventually found about 3 or 4 and this one I had moulded, was the only one that even looked about right. :-)

Greenie, your work is stunning.

Another nifty project. Excellent work painting the carcasses.
Too bad there aren't any 3D flies to sprinkle on them  ::)

There are flies in the corner, Bill. Go stand there! -- ssuR

I guess it won't be like solitary confinement in the corner because it will have the latest buzz. Will there be pork chops?

Another one finished and ready for the cupboard.
Here's a 1/12th scale Double Lorry ( requires two neddies for power, so it's a Double ) made from the drawings of J.E.Bishop once again.Printed in 'The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, Oct 1918.
Usual methods of construction, so no different procedures were required. 
This vehicle used nave brakes and they were a tad tricky to get both sides working together.
Sorry about no before photo's, got carried away with splashing paint about and completely forgot about taking any pics. 


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Beautiful.

I love your previous wagon but I may slightly prefer this one. You chose a couple of beauties to model. Fabrication, paint, and graphics aren't bad, either. All of your models belong in a top notch museum someday. Satisfactory. -- Russ

Terrific model! Like the colors. Interesting brakes.

Beautiful work, simply beautiful!

Stuart

I just noticed your other photos have disappeared because the links expired. It would be nice to be able to look at them again. -- Russ

Quote from: finescalerr on November 23, 2022, 12:22:19 PMI just noticed your other photos have disappeared because the links expired. It would be nice to be able to look at them again. -- Russ

Looks like that site is unavailable for now, sorry, can't do anything about it for you Russ.

So add this to your favorites --------------

https://www.facebook.com/groups/306290910852825

Quote from: Bill Gill on November 23, 2022, 06:32:06 AMTerrific model! Like the colors. Interesting brakes.

Here you go Bill, a tad of reading for you --------------------


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Thanks, greenie!
With your clear photos of the underside of the Double Lorry I could easily follow and understand how the brakes functioned from the brake lever for the driver to the brake pads.

Must have been a lot of screeching in Melbourne as teh brake pads wore to the bolt heads, but no mention of a fire hazard from the friction on thos wooden blocks when the brakes were applied.

Well they were known as "Squeelers" for that very reason, don't know if you have had a look at Google for 'Red Gum'.

It is a very HARD timber and needs a bloody good fire too get it to burn, so no worries about being used as brake blocks.

It was the bolts that held it too the brake band that was the noisy bugger, so they had to bring in that law, just to make the Lorry owners fix the noise problem. ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

Magnificent!

Nothing to do with the quality and finesse of what I can see on this post, but I still present to you what I made, namely a buckboard at 1:20. for a first realization of this type, I am satisfied.

The buckboard looks good to me. nice work.

Most satisfactory. -- Russ

Very nicely done and welcome to the forum!

Here's a site that has an a lot of information about making Scale Model Horse Drawn Vehicles, it is well worth looking thru this site as it has an extensive amount of information regarding making these models.

Lot's of different sections to browse thru. :-)


http://www.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/index.htm

Thank you for your welcome and your comments. I'm new to this forum, but I've been reading you for many years.

Looks great to me!

Here is a 1/12th scale model of a Light Business Waggon, made once again from the drawings of J.E.Bishop and Son, printed in "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, Oct 1906".

Usual methods of construction, so no different procedures were required.

Sorry about no before photo's, got carried away with splashing paint about and completely forgot about taking any pics.


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As usual just outstanding. About my favorite models on here. And that's saying something. The paint jobs are really excellent. Thanks for showing them again!

Greenie, Alistair Clarke should be proud to have his waggon painted (and built) by you.
I'm curious, I don't see any kind of a brake. Would a wheel just be chocked when parked?

Utterly superb. As usual. -- Russ

Quote from: Bill Gill on March 17, 2023, 05:28:19 AMGreenie, Alistair Clarke should be proud to have his waggon painted (and built) by you.
I''m curious, I don't see any kind of a brake. Would a wheel just be chocked when parked?

G'day Bill, quick answer is ----------  Yep. :-)

Quote from: finescalerr on March 17, 2023, 12:52:55 PMUtterly superb. As usual. -- Russ

Gee whiz, thanks for that compliment Russ, much appreciated.

G'day Bill, quick answer is ----------  Yep. :-) Greenie
Thanks!

Stunning, as always! Your models always take my breath away!

Here's the latest offering, it's NOT Horse Drawn Vehicle, but where else can I put it ?

It is a 1/12th scale model of a man drawn Hose Reel.

Used a drawing published in "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Saddler, Nov 1894".

The wheels do not have any dish in them as they are made just like a bicycle wheel is spoked.
Will need to do more of them to get it just right, but near enough for the model.

Have a look and see what you think ------------------


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Outstanding in every regard!

The wheels and the entire hose reel look good to me!
Did you make the tools?

Simply gorgeous... outstanding work. What did you use to represent the hose?

That seems adequate for a first draft. -- Russ

Quote from: Bill Gill on June 27, 2023, 06:59:16 AMThe wheels and the entire hose reel look good to me!
Did you make the tools?

Yep.

Quote from: WP Rayner on June 27, 2023, 07:28:13 AMSimply gorgeous... outstanding work. What did you use to represent the hose?

Just a length of drawstring you would have in your pajama pants.

Quote from: finescalerr on June 27, 2023, 11:54:46 AMThat seems adequate for a first draft. -- Russ

Thanks Russ, still need to rethink on how I made those wheels tho. :-)

Magnificent!!

Another 1/12th scale model, this time it's a South African Trolley and the drawing was published in "The Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, June 1904. Not to sure how this vehicle ended up in an Australian publication, but it is different and worthwhile making a model of it. The drawing calls for a pole for horses, but I could not find any pictures from Sth Africa showing this type of vehicle with horses up front, but plenty of pics showing Oxen or Bullocks pulling a Trolley of this type, so it soon became a vehicle that was drawn by Bullocks or Oxen. Even swiped the colour scheme from a photo of one of these vehicles on display in Sth Africa.


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Another great model!
The black crank handle in back looks like it might be for a 'parking brake'. Is that correct?

Hi Bill, the brake is used for that, as well as slowing it down when going downhill, just so you don't kill the motive power.  :D

The main reason that the brake is at the rear of the Trolley, is with Bullocks as motive power, you drive them from the ground.
The Bullockie is on the ground walking and swearing at them and using a bluddy long whip to control them.

If it were Horses that were the motive power then you use Reins to control them, then a seat should/would be fitted up the front of the Trolley and a foot/hand brake arrangement would be used for the driver to control it.
 
So Bullocks as motive power and the animals being controlled from the ground, then that handle at the rear is a suitable position for it.

Another jaw-droppingly good model!

Ho-hum, perfect, artistic, and gorgeous ... as usual. -- Russ

Thanks, Greenie.

As typical of your work --- stunning!

Stuart

Here is a 1/12th scale Pony Sulky, made from the drawing by J.E.Bishop & Son, printed in "The Coach and Motor Builder, July 1918. Usual methods of construction, paint is Enamel and decals are done on an ALPS printer. No photos showing construction, only finished photos. Sorry about the long delay between models, but Covid got in the way of finishing this model.


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Hope you've fully recovered.
Worth waiting to see.

G'day Bill, eventually got over it and I'm back into it again. :-)

Beautiful work.

Another masterpiece!

COVID may have delayed completion but certainly had no impact on quality. Superb. And I hope your health now is. -- Russ

Quote from: finescalerr on April 06, 2024, 12:47:36 AMCOVID may have delayed completion but certainly had no impact on quality. Superb. And I hope your health now is. -- Russ

Starting to get back at it now, for 6 months I did not want to do anything at all, just lounged around feeling miserable.