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I saw a couple of these Omnibuses in an old movie news reel which was shown on TV as a ‘Flashback’ segment, I liked the look of them and thought, hmmm - I think I have a working drawing for one of these vehicles.
Found the drawing and [...]
There is a Fire Hose Reel at the M.O.V.E museum at Shepparton Vic and has some excellent designs painted on it, I thought it looked quite good, so I took quite a a few photos OF IT for future reference.
I found a working drawing of a Fire [...]
A 1/12th scale 'Van on Lorry Under Carriage', made from the drawing of J.E.Bishop, published in the January, 1919 edition of "The Coach and Motor Builder".
Changed the wheels from wooden spoked wheels to steel wheels, these steel [...]
Here is another Horse Drawn Vehicle that I have made, it’s a 1/12th scale Bakers Waggonette.
It took me just over 6 months of 'graft' to get it finished, sometimes life just gets in the way of a decent hobby, eh.
The original full sized [...]
Here is a 1/12th scale Napoleonic Cannon, made from the drawings of Barrie Voisey and sold under licence by John Thompson.
Started with the wheels, made all the ‘fellies’ as cake slices and glued them together, then I made the [...]
Here is a 1/8th scale “Exercising Cart", or, you can use its popular name that it goes by today, a ’Spider’, for very obvious reasons.
The full sized vehicle was owned by Mrs Val Perkins, from a small town called Coonewarre, [...]
Another Scratchbuilt 1/12th scale model, this time it's a South African Trolley, the drawing was published in "The Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, June 1904. Not to sure how this vehicle ended up in an Australian publication, but it is [...]
Here is a 1/12th scale model of a Light Business Waggon made from the drawings of J.E.Bishop and Son, printed in The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright, Oct 1906.
Found the picture of an old truck body on the web and thought that it [...]
Here’s a Cannon, this is meant to be a British 9lb Smooth Bore Cannon.
Saw the drawing for this little Cannon in the Model Engineer ( English publication ) can’t remember the date it was printed, but it was about 30 yrs odd ago, or [...]
Here is something that seems to be all but forgotten about, when there is such a proliferation of pre-formed plastic models available today. It involves a bit of luck and skill to create these small wheels by hand instead of just gluing a [...]
