Old Wagons

[Ray Dunakin]

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?

[Chuck Doan]

This is truly stunning. No exaggerating.

[greenie]

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.


regards  greenie

[Mr Potato Head]

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

[5thwheel]

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

[Mr Potato Head]

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

MPH

[greenie]

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 ------





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

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
















regards  greenie 

[finescalerr]

Most satisfactory. -- Russ

[Bill Gill]

Another jewel! Magnificent is an understatement.

[Design-HSB]

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

[Gordon Ferguson]

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

[TRAINS1941]

That is just awesome beautifully done.

Jerry

[Ray Dunakin]

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

[greenie]

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






regards  greenie 

[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