joe circus
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I like what you've done there Jaz. Looks great! I have much respect for those who can scratch build models, especially out of non plastic materials!
Nice upgrade, plus if you desired you could age the wood,but as yours is of the time the new wood works well.We're looking at what I think is a plastic truck kit with a wooden bed swapped for whatever the kit offered. I should've taken the picture from a little higher angle to show the work details on the bed.
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Nicely modelled machinery, looks like metal, so nicely painted tooI have a stake driver up today. Looks like a military surplus vehicle with tracks, modified to work the big show.
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Oooh ooh cocktail sticks a piece of paper and some dress making scissors like the ones I show in the build your own caravan, and you could add the canopy, size the trailer drawer a rectangular shaper for size then fold the four sides then cut the edging with the dress makers scissors glue on cut cocktail stick paint orange and add the paper top.This one is a little different. This is the #201 Stringer Wagon. It came from the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, well, the running gear did. Universal had attached a Gypsy type body for it's use.
CWM removed the body and extended the platform to make a stringer wagon. These wagons would carry the 22 foot long stringers used for seat construction at the circus location.
Circus World had need of such a wagon for equipment at Milwaukee. And, following the lead of the 101 Ranch Real Wild West, used the wagon, after unloading, as a platform for dancing Indians to ride on.
My version came from the Silver Bros. Circus, and still needs to be re-lettered.
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This is how mine will look, hopefully, in the near future. Note this is painted Adam Forepaugh Shows. The picture in the "Horse Drawn Wagon Collection at The Circus World Museum Baraboo, Wisconsin", edited by Chappie Fox, shows it with 101 Ranch Wild West dress.
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