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Zap's 1:18 Scale Diorama Parts Development Thread
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03-26-2024, 10:24 PM
Zap Rowsdower
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ARBCO Avenue
Very cool that you are going for historical accuracy. DNL collectors are going to love it! Nice work Zap!
I like to make my stuff as authentic as reasonably possible. I'm not sure if you saw my 12-pounder cannon and limber project, but that was modeled off of many pages of original plans that had meticulous detail and measurements:
I want to find something that detailed for a stagecoach, I just haven't been able to come close.
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07GT500 COBRA
Funny you mentioned the Smithsonian. Years ago in the 90s, my dad went hunting in Montana on a guy's ranch who owned a number of antique covered wagons. Anywho, story was the Smithsonian offered him $1 million dollars for his collection, but he turned them down. Don't know if he had a carriage or not. I'll ask my father if he remembers seeing one. He did give my dad an antique wagon wheel to give my mom.
I would have loved to have seen that. I have access to an old farm wagon's front axle with wheels that's sitting around a relative's property way out in the sticks, but nothing as awesome as a collection of wagons. If you do ask your dad please let me know what he says. I wonder if the collection ended up in a museum eventually anyway.
As for my stagecoach project, I haven't made any moves on my last couple of leads yet, but I'm not totally done with the Smithsonian. I just need to try asking a different department within the organization. I tried direct records access by accession number after looking through document manifests for a few days and the item I requested turned out to be mostly useless and something I had already found via google image searches weeks earlier. I read
a 2013 news article online about a guy who made a full scale stagecoach
and the article says he bought the plans to do it from the Smithsonian. I figure the drawings I need must be there somewhere, but where? The article has contact information for the man who built the coach, but I located an obituary for the poor guy from 2023 so I can't even try bugging him to see if he can tell me where he found his plans.
The Oregon Historical Society has a
collection of drawings for scale models
, which may have to suffice. But they want about
$50 shipped for 4 pages of plans
and there are no measurements on them either. Argh!
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