Old Wagons

[Ray Dunakin]

Magnificent as usual!

The "lesson" was quite fascinating as well. I never would have guessed that special carts were used to train new horses.

[greenie]

They even had a larger Break for those that had a lot of horses to Break-in, it was a Two Horse Break, see pic below.

[greenie]

Here's the latest, it's a 1/12th scale model of a Concord Buggy. This was made to the drawing that was published in "The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright", April 1910, usual methods of construction, so nothing new. Have a look and see what you think of it.

[Bill Gill]

Another terrific model, Greenie. Excellent work in all aspects.

[finescalerr]

Perfect execution. Satisfactory. -- Russ

[TRAINS1941]

What can one say!!  Just beautiful work.

Jerry

[Stuart]

It's always such a pleasure to see your admirable work.

Stuart

[Barney]

Very Nice with great detail
Barney

[Les Tindall]

Like all your models you can almost smell the leather!

[Ray Dunakin]

Stunning!!

[greenie]

Latest one for the cupboard, it is a 12th scale Tip Waggon.

Sorry for the extended delay, but this was a real odd vehicle and took lot longer than anticipated to make this model.
I was sent a  picture of this vehicle and thought it was bit different, so I contacted  the sender of the pic and got quite a few more details about this odd ball vehicle.

Looked thru my  stash of Working Drawings and there is a drawing that was very similar to the photo.

Given another name to contact and was kindly sent some more photographs of the vehicle as well as another name to contact. Contacted the third person and I received further information about the Waggon as well. The third contact explains that the Tip Waggon is in the shed at her home and I could get at it only a little bit, shoved up against the shed wall and other vehicles blocking it in. It had no rear wheels on the vehicle as they had been taken off to get the steel tyres repaired, but I could still get at it, just a  little bit for some photos.

Took an hour and a half drive to get to where the vehicle actually is for a few photographs, well worth the trip to actually just see it.

The Working Drawing is not exactly the same as the vehicle as in the first picture, noticed that as soon as I saw the vehicle, so I had to alter quite a few bits on the drawing, to make the model as per the vehicle in the first pic.
I found out that the full sized vehicle is only one of two that were made, the first one was the same as the drawing and the second one was an update to the first drawing.
The dimensions are approximately the same as per the drawing, but the means of tipping the Waggon are different than what's on the drawing. Had to draw quite a few bits again, to get it to be similar to the original photo, that took quite a bit of time with working out all those missing details.

The Working Drawing calls for a chain to pull the body of the Waggon to the rear, by winding a crank handle to pull the body rearwards and when it reaches a critical point, then the body just tips and the contents are spread on the ground.
The mechanism for tipping the body on the actual full sized vehicle is by a 'rack and pinion', crank the handle and the gears fit into the rack and the body is pushed rearward to the tipping point again.
To get the body back to the horizontal position, just grab the tipped body and pull it back down, then start to crank the body towards the front, as the body on the full sized vehicle is very well balanced.

This vehicle was made to carry sugar cane, from the paddock to where-ever the load was required, could have been to the railhead, or even into the sugar mill.  You could even use it to carry chords of timber, from the bush to a steam engine in town, or anywhere if you so desired.

Method of construction is as per all the other models I have made.
A few before painting photos to show all the extra details and then the after painting and assembly photos.

Any questions about this unusual vehicle, then please ask —————————————

[Stuart]

Amazing work, perfect!

Stuart

[finescalerr]

I can't remember your ever posting progress photos of your wagons. Thanks. Now we have a little better idea how you produce such stunning models. -- Russ

[greenie]

Here's a link to YouTube showing how the Waggon body is moved to the rear for tipping.
Gotta thank the missus for her contribution to this post, eh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiymjBHbbhQ&ab_channel=MareeGreen

[Bill Gill]

As soon as I saw that you had posted a new waggon I quickly clicked and scrolled to see it.
Terrific!  And the video of it in operation was very nice too.