Old Wagons

[Mr Potato Head]

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

[5thwheel]

Kids wagon.



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.

[5thwheel]

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.

[5thwheel]

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

[Scratchman]

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

IMG_9039 by Gordon Birrell, on Flickr

IMG_8961 by Gordon Birrell, on Flickr

Gordon Birrell

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

[Ray Dunakin]

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

[greenie]

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.












regards  greenie  

[finescalerr]

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

[Allan G]

Totally awesome Greenie!!!!! Allan

[Bill Gill]

Huzzah! Huzzah! HUZZAH!!!

[Hydrostat]

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

Cheers,
Volker

[Carlo]

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

[5thwheel]

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

[greenie]

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 

[michael mott]

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/ they have a section that the public can view where they still repair and make carriage wheels.

Michael