So while I am patiently waiting to start on Pepper’s Ice Company’s new ice house I figured I would spend the time making them a new wagon to deliver the ice with. I bought my Cricut with many uses in mind but one of them was t cut/score styrene sheet materiel. I hadn’t tried it until now. I made a simple design in paint. There are trim layers and body layers. I designed it to layer .015 styrene sheet to form the trim and base layers. Two thicknesses make up the trim and then on layer as the backing. I use .020 (not cut on the machine) for the roof and floor. I set the machine on the deepest cut it will make, which I think makes 3 or four passes. Either way it did not cut all the way through .015 sheet but it scored it plenty enough to bend and snap. Very slick, very fast, very precise way to make layered parts; now that I know it will do it this will get used a lot. Here is the body pieces glued up. Sorry for the blurry pictures but if oyu look hard enough you can see the depth of the trim created with the layering.
Then with a set of drawings I found on the internet for a Studebaker wagon chassis I set out constructing the “gear” which is I guess wagon lingo for the chassis.
The Wheels are castings that the late Dick Whitney had made and I am lucky enough to have the mold for. The horse (which I am happy to say is a very nice size) was from Michael’s, and the decals are a new thing I am trying which is water slide printed on a laser printer. The rest is just wood and styrene and wire and what not. I will work on this at the same time as the ice house so they are done at the same time. Actually the wagon is already about half done. This was two days work.
