Scrachbuilding a farm wagon

Such plans are available but hard to find.  The Oregon Historical Society sells some great plans for historic vehicles.  There are a couple of other suppliers I have used- Criss-Cross Creations, and Wildwood Designs.  Don't know if either is still in business.  Can't find web addresses.

Criss- Cross Creations, Box 324, Wayne, NJ 07470.

Wildwood Designs, Inc. Box 661, Richland Center, WI

Since companies offering this kind of stuff come and go, do a web search (Google or similar) for drawings, horsedrawn vehicles

Hi Lucky 7th,

Check this website for lots of links to horse-drawn vehicle plans, as well as an interesting forum:

http://www.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk

Cheers,

Rockie Yarwood

If your still interested in freeby drawings, then this might be of interest to you.

regards  radish

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kuntz/wagon.html

One other thing I forgot to mention in my earlier reply.  Good plans will properly show this, but the cross section of wheel spokes is NOT round/circular.  They were generally a rectangle with rounded edges, sometimes the rounding was almost enough to look like oval or elliptical, but never round, until metal spoked wheels arrived on scene.  Do not use dowels for spokes, use strip rectangular stock (you may have to taper each spoke) and round the edges yourself.  Doing the wheels, of course, is the hardest part of these models.  I believe some of the Criss-Cross plans show how to make a wheel jig for assembling spokes and hubs into a wheel.

Don, if he can produce/manufacture ANY wooden waggon wheels in 1/35 scale, then a blind man would be glad just to see the spokes, whether they be square, rectangular or oval shaped.

If he can ' pull off ' making a wheel in 1/35 scale, that even looks remotely like it has a hub, fourteen spokes and seven fellies. then add a steel tyre to it, I don't think "you" will even notice what the spokes are shaped like. Actually, a toothpick would be about the size required for the spokes for this Herculean effort.

Good luck to the person in question who is attempting to make these wheels and if you are reading this, then please keep everybody posted on your progress.

If you have not allready read this page, then I suggest you do, particularly the sections on anything to do with making wheels.

http://www.scalemodelhorsedrawnvehicle.co.uk/(Tips%20&%20Ideas).htm

If you want to take the " easy way out ", then this site posted below, might just tweek your interest.

http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/ModelWheels.htm 

Should of added this lot to the previous post.

A wheel that's made for a waggon, is vastly different to a wheel made for a buggy, think about the weight that the vehicle has to carry, that will indicate how heavy the wheel should be constructed.

The old saying of - different horse for different courses  - certainly applies to this lot.

Don, here's another type of spoke to add to the list, ----  OCTAGON shaped.

There are quite a few different profiles for spokes, if you do some research into them.

I guess an important question is what era farm wagon. True that later eras had things like constant cross section spokes and the octagon showed.  Many of those were metal spokes, and the metal spoked wheels (like buggy wheels) could be represented by dowels/rods. I was thinking of earlier wagons with wider spokes near hubs, tapering to nearly square near rim (made of wood).  Those have noticeable taper that I think you would see even in 1:34 (you can certainly see it in 1:24).

Maybe this will help too: http://www.dishmodels.ru/gshow.htm?p=2358

I built tis MINIART wagon a few years back---you can see the spokes clearly in the closeup.  MINIART did their research as you can see that they are not rounded.  Nice kit but a bit pricey for such little plastic...

Another thing to consider is what region is the wagon that you want to do from as they are all different: American, Eurapean (and there are variations even in Europe).  Use Google Images to find pictures of what you want.

Use Google Advance Book Search. Look for advertising or articles on road construction. Make sure you bracket the date. If you want a good photo of something like that I would bracket the date to 1880-1920 or so. You can also try the Library of Congress photographic site. Again, try searching on where it was used such as road consruction.

Lucky 7TH

I am looking for detailed drawings or plans for scratchbuilding a 1/35 scale horse drawn farm tip cart or just plans for farm carts and wagons that I can scale down to 1/35th for free.I have seen plans for other woodworking projects for free on-line,but no plans for building a wooden cart or wagon.

 

                                                  Thanks for the help!

 

Lucky 7TH

I am looking for detailed drawings or plans for scratchbuilding a 1/35 scale horse drawn farm tip cart or just plans for farm carts and wagons that I can scale down to 1/35th for free.I have seen plans for other woodworking projects for free on-line,but no plans for building a wooden cart or wagon.

 

                                                  Thanks for the help!

 

Lucky 7TH

I am looking for detailed drawings or plans for scratchbuilding a 1/35 scale horse drawn farm tip cart or just plans for farm carts and wagons that I can scale down to 1/35th for free.I have seen plans for other woodworking projects for free on-line,but no plans for building a wooden cart or wagon.

 

                                                  Thanks for the help!