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!
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.
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.
i have plans for horse drawn wagons and carrages. they are all from the UK. they were my late husbands
I have a similar situation, but the farm wagon that I want to build is a lot more modern. I plan to build everything from scratch using various pieces of styrene (square stock, round stock, angle stock, sheet). I’m not able to build the wheels and can’t seem to find a basic steel rimmed wheel on scalemates (seems everyone wants fancy rims for their models). Does the group have any suggestions?
Is there someone who 3-D prints the steel wheels that you’re looking for? I’m curious as to what tractor is going to be pulling this wagon?
Here’s a link to @NucMedTech build of a ‘53 pickup. The way I read it, both these wheel/tire options are in the truck kit. Maybe that would work and someone might be willing to part with the stock set.
Thanks @Frozin I don’t want to volunteer his wheels for him. 
He may have a use for them.
Oh. I wasn’t suggesting his wheels specifically. I figured there is a chance someone else here may have the same kit and some to spare. Or if you felt so inclined, you could pick up that kit yourself.
Oh, I agree= I didn’t realize we were talking about such small scale. I build spoked wheels only in 1:16 and larger.
