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Builder Last Online: Jun 2016
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Started: 11-12-12
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I'd been looking for another subject to take a run at and happened upon this little guy. I thought that it might make an interesting project but the amount of information available that would allow for suitable and detailed working drawings to be made was in very short supply. To expand on that a bit...I've always found the research part of attempting a build to be as interesting as the build itself. In the case of the Champion. there appeared to be very little available and I'd almost given up when I noticed that there was an actual CHAMPION ANTIQUE GRADER CLUB that exists in Goderich, ON, Canada where the Champion factory existed for many years (until taken over by Volvo). I decided to contact them and sent a message to Mr. Ted Rowe at that location. WOW!...absolutely WOW!. Ted is not only one of the friendliest
and most helpfull folk I've ever met on line but he quite happily advised that the club owns the ORIGINAL blueprints for the 'vehicle in question'. He then offered to photograph the originals and forward same to me (the photo's are copyrighted and I won't reproduce them here - except for the one shown that I received permission to duplicate). That had to be about the easiest research project on record...well, for me, anyways. I've got two in the works right now for well over a year and still not close to being ready for a build...and I know of others that have spent far more time than that in order to research to the point where they HAD enough to do the 'build' correctly.
This is starting to get a bit long but I really wanted to show the 'whole' build from start to completion and the research is a significant part of any build (I'm preaching to the choir here - I've SEEN some of the builds on this site and some of them are astounding and took vast amounts of historical and detailed knowledge to complete)
This model is in its infancy and I'm not convinced I can do it yet (but I'll sure try). the aim is to do it completely in brass...except for the pole for hooking up the horses (no - I'm NOT going to build horses
). I've received the first selection (2) of photo's that are a side elevation of the full vehicle. They lack a good deal of fine detail but provide some measurements (and an overall shape) that will allow me to study/measure them to determine what scale I can build in.
I suspect that this will be a VERY slow process - but I'll post progress as it occurs
and most helpfull folk I've ever met on line but he quite happily advised that the club owns the ORIGINAL blueprints for the 'vehicle in question'. He then offered to photograph the originals and forward same to me (the photo's are copyrighted and I won't reproduce them here - except for the one shown that I received permission to duplicate). That had to be about the easiest research project on record...well, for me, anyways. I've got two in the works right now for well over a year and still not close to being ready for a build...and I know of others that have spent far more time than that in order to research to the point where they HAD enough to do the 'build' correctly.This is starting to get a bit long but I really wanted to show the 'whole' build from start to completion and the research is a significant part of any build (I'm preaching to the choir here - I've SEEN some of the builds on this site and some of them are astounding and took vast amounts of historical and detailed knowledge to complete
)This model is in its infancy and I'm not convinced I can do it yet (but I'll sure try). the aim is to do it completely in brass...except for the pole for hooking up the horses (no - I'm NOT going to build horses
). I've received the first selection (2) of photo's that are a side elevation of the full vehicle. They lack a good deal of fine detail but provide some measurements (and an overall shape) that will allow me to study/measure them to determine what scale I can build in.I suspect that this will be a VERY slow process - but I'll post progress as it occurs
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