Terrain Tuesdays!
Steam traction engines have always fascinated me, in my childhood I would often visit the neighbours saw mill that has a steam traction engine the dove the great saws that cut down the Australian hardwoods from the forests of New England Tablelands. Later in my teens when I joined the engineers we had as our regiments mascot a Frog and a steam traction engine (2/3 Feild Engineer regiment) and I volunteered to work on the beast.
So with that in mind I picked up a Steam Engine pencil sharpener around 6 years ago, these are often found in Australian tourist gift shops, particulary in country areas and have been around for 30 odd years.
First job remove the sharpener and the wheel assembly, add decent axles, then undercoat.
Next I scratch built the flywheel, and the housing
Then a quick fit before I attach the linkages, then paint job green and red plus Brass work for the bling!
cheers
Matt
6 comments:
Nice work Matt!
Ver cool, Matt!
Dig the house and the traction engine. I am sure it would look good with a saw mill or a chaff cutter.
Cheers Ray, more work to do yet
Thanks Dean
My head says chaff cutter, my heart saw mill
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