"Hand-made a wooden artillery piece" Topic

In the "wooden toy soldier" style that the rest of my Wooden Warriors are in, I present the French Napoleonic artillery piece.

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Still have to do the artillerymen, of course, but this is a start.

Tutorial on how it was made:
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Whew! That's finally done!

Dale
wooden-warriors.blogspot.com

Nicely done! Dig the craftees too!

I was inspired by your blog to paint up some passengers for my niece's toy trainset (her birthday is in April).

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Not the best photo (I couldn't get enough light on things).

The place that I bought the pawn shapes from also does oil drums and barrels and milk-churns!! So I got some of those as well :-)

I thought I might try a couple of soldiers as part of the set, but I can't work out how to do the hats really… I saw your picklehaube and that was kind of the approach I was thinking of, but I'd need to make the features stronger (she's only just coming up on 2) and I'm not sure balsa would do it.

My current plan for hats is to find plastic washers which will just fit onto the heads and hammer them firmly into place and then glue them to make the brim and then just paint the top of the head to match.

Peaked hats I think I could probably do with a slot and part of a washer glued in, but I'm still a bit worried about the smaller part coming loose so those figures might have to wait until her 3rd or 4th birthday..

Same place also does wooden wheels if it would save you making them -- link

KatieL – Awesome paint jobs! I love that cartoony style. You should think about joining the Wargaming on a Budget forum; they really appreciate that kind of work.

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The pickelhaube was not balsa, but popsicle sticks, which are white pine, I believe. Use Gorilla Glue Super Glue mixed with white glue and the bond is strong!

I order from Woodworks and saw those, but the wheel are too "fat" and balloon-like. I would have had to sand them down anyway, so I figured I would have the same problem. Besides, I could not find 1 1/2" wheels (those are 2 1/2").

Thanks for the links. Look forward to seeing more of your stuff.

Dale

Great stuff…i really like the inventiveness and originality. The link to the Wargaming on a Budget forum I sahll investigate fully, thanks for that one.
Cheers
paul

Very nice work, Dale.

Kind of labor-intensive though. I would have taken the lazy man's path of cannibalizing the wheels from some plastic toy or other. Hats off to your determination and woodworking skills.

Steve

Yes, the wheels are certainly not mass producible. :^)