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Crimp the folded tin tight up to the pin using a smooth jawed vice, pliers, or the back end of a table knife. Cut a strip of tin just a little over 1” wide and no more than 3” long and fold both 1” ends over a dressmakers pin. 020”) and you will find what is best suited for your needs. The thickness can vary between 0.30mm to 0.50mm (.012” to. Alternatively, you can get the equivalent brass/copper sheet and rod from some model engineering suppliers. Use the tin from an empty beer or larger can, or from a small tin of cat/dog food. You will also require thin sheet metal (tin). Dressmakers Pins have a diameter of about 0.65mm ( 0.025”) and these are ideal to use. This is not at all difficult, and the materials with which to make them are easily obtainable, and cost very little. By far the best way to get the correct scale hinges is to make them yourself. The American Curtain Rockaway (for instance) has eight hinges, and the smallest, (at 1/8th scale) is 1/8” x 3/16” – not much bigger than the head of a match! You won’t find hinges this small in any of the craft outlets even dolls house and small trinket box hinges are too big. Miniature Hinges Many horse drawn vehicles, especially the commercial vehicles, carriages and coaches have doors that open on metal hinges. In the USA there is - The Carriage Association of America and The Henry Ford Museum, in Australia there is The Cobb & Co. It is worth searching the internet as there are a number of very interesting sources in many other countries that house collections of Horse Drawn Vehicles. Topic, you will need to arrange an appointment if you want to view objects Although many of the objects in the collectionĪre on display in the public galleries, if you are interested in a particular Is now part of an extensive collection at The Museum of English Rural Life, Near Callington, and owned by Mr Henwood of Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Picture to the right is of a Cornish Waggon Built by Aaron Vosper of North Get permission before taking photograph and measurements.

Take a camera, a sketch pad and tape with you and You make the journey as some of them are not on permanent public display. London has a number of horse drawn vehicles in the Science Many rural life museums have been established in recent years andĭrawn implements such as ploughs, cultivators, seed drills and hay rakesĬarts and waggons. The Real Thing If it is practically possible, make a special journey to see t he actual model you intend to make. Please e-mail them to me, including scanned drawings and photographs. If you have any tips or ideas that you would like to share Jigs he even had a small water trough for shrinking the heated tires to Collins’ made specially built machines and These are now in the collection of the Oregon In 1971, managed to document and build a collection of sixty-three superb Not only is the effectīetter but one has the satisfaction on knowing that the job has been done properly.” Methods than to fiddle about with ‘bodge-up methods. Myself that it is really easier to build a miniature wheel by following wheelwrights

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The late David Wray once wrote – “Constructional methodsĬan quite easily follow full sized practice in most cases. Never be any improvisation or guess work, the model should be a visual three-dimensional The aim of the serious model maker is to create an accurateĪnd authentic model in every detail, ideally, to museum standard.

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