Old Wagons

chester · April 18, 2012, 06:10:50 AM

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

finescalerr · April 18, 2012, 11:58:24 AM

Satisfactory. -- Russ

Malachi Constant · April 18, 2012, 01:42:26 PM

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

Ray Dunakin · April 18, 2012, 05:40:30 PM

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.

Chuck Doan · April 19, 2012, 08:17:58 AM

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

compressor man · April 19, 2012, 03:28:09 PM

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.

Chris