'23 Ford 'T' Carny Wagon

[bryan_m]

Very nice Brad. where did the acoustic guitar come from? did ya scratchbuild that? if so, nice work!

cheers

bryan

[Toner283]

Holy smokes! Just came across this build tonight. Excellent scratchbuilding skills. Awesome subject matter. Much better than a run of the mill muscle car or street rod. Great pics too.

Edited September 7, 2012 by Toner283

[Danno]

Gets better every time you touch it, Bradster!

[cobraman]

Where are you getting your ideas for all your detail ? Do you have a real one in your back yard ? Following plans ? Not sure if you ever mentioned or not. Whatever the case it is one beautifully detailed model.

[gasser59]

No, I don't have one in the backyard. Wish I did. The guitar is scratch built from bass wood and the neck was made separately from the body. The neck details were drawn on with a Micron marker by hand and I used RB Motion bolt heads for the tuner pegs. The banana was also made from bass wood, the apple is a turned piece of red plastic sprue and the bar of soap was cut from a semi-transparent piece from an orange ball point pen. The soap dish was a clear head light lens that was thinned down to make it more resemble a plate. I may redo the apple though as it doesn't have the right shape or color.

Thanks guys.

[Danno]

That's an apple? I thought it was a giant salmon egg!

[gasser59]

Ha!! See why I want to redo it? I can't have an out-of-scale salmon egg.

[gasser59]

Well gents, this one is complete. I may add a horn under the hood if I can source one. As my rotten luck would have it, my camera went on the fritz yesterday and its not able to focus. I'll borrow the wife's tomorrow and get some pics up. A few here and then a new thread in the Under Glass section.

I'll finally be able to clean off my workbench. There's so many scraps of wood, aluminum pieces, basswood siding, cut tree limbs, printing plate, etc in piles every where.

Thanks for your interest and following along. I had a blast building this one. Now pack to my '41 Willys PU gasser. Actually, I started on this build because I couldn't find my seat belt material for the Willys and found it about a week into this build but I was on a roll with this carny wagon, I had to strike while the iron was hot.

[gasser59]

I was able to squeeze one decent picture out of my failing camera. It was taken from across the room and zoomed in all the way. I even fully charged the battery hoping that would help.

As you can tell, I added dual rear wheels based on input from a few of you. Thanks for that as it really made it more feasible.

Edited November 10, 2012 by gasser59

[Alan]

Brad, you knocked this right out of the park !! Very interesting subject matter with an excellent execution ..... A diorama on wheels,

Well done !!!!!!!!

Alan

[gasser59]

Thanks for the kind words Alan. They're greatly appreciated.

The camera issues continue so I pulled the Willys out of the box and started messing with it. First thing, the working steering was glued up tight. So it had to all come apart and be glued back together properly. That's enough of that. My camera is going in for repairs and my wife's comes back Wednesday from repairs. Must be something in the air around here for both of them to mess up. I'll get some finished pictures up soon.

Edited September 11, 2012 by gasser59

[Art Laski]

Hey Brad, I haven't peeked in in a while, but so glad I did tonight. The details are spectacular! Great work!

-Art

[Tony T]

This is truly fabulous!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful build!!

[Gluhead]

You'll have to lose your seatbelt material more often.

[Alyn]

Stellar job, Brad. So much fun stuff in this project it's hard to stop looking.

I'll bet there's more than on member on the MCM forum thinking about building an old wagon of some sort after seeing this beauty.

[gasser59]

Thanks for the kind words Art, Tony, Glu and Alyn. Much appreciated. As mentioned earlier, this just needs a bit more weathering and I've got some Rust n Dust coming in the mail to get that done. Some of the items completed since last post: dual wheels, weathered the posters a bit, fruit is in place, match bin to the right of the entrance door complete with red tipped matches, battery box on the driver's side running board to name a few. Finally able to get some pictures up\ although I wish my camera was working properly because it has a much better macro feature.

Enjoy and thanks for following along and your interest.

Edited September 12, 2012 by gasser59

[rustybill1960]

Exquisite work Brad!

Beautifully crafted as well!

I am simply in awe of yopur build!

Thank You for sharing with Us here

Later

Russ

[gasser59]

Thanks Russ. This has been fun working on this with all of the different building materials. As stated by Alan earlier, It is sort of a rolling diorama and I'd forgotten how much I enjoy working on a diorama. Its been awhile.

Here's a few more pics. Thanks again.

Edited September 12, 2012 by gasser59

[bryan_m]

that came out so nice Brad! excellent work........ ill give you my address so you can mail it to me! :D

beautiful work

cheers

bryan

[Grumpa]

This turned out fantastic Brad! I want to move into it!

[Mister Twister]

Thats very impressive work Brad....I really like it!

[Ira]

VERY REALISTIC!!!

Wonderful Details, Love this Wagon...

[72 Charger]

Wow its a shame that you had to paint it !! You are a craftsman. I tip my hat to you sir

Doobie

[gasser59]

Thanks for the comments fellas. A bit more to add. I masked off the wiper pattern and fogged the windshield with dull coat sprayed at an arm's length. I've also been using Tamiya weathering powders to 'age' the overall vehicle and have a bunch more to do.

Here's a pic of the windshield.

Thanks for following along.

[Dogfish_7]

Fun to watch all the great detail work!