Wooden Toy Car, Hot Rod Freak Ford, 32 Deuce Coupe, Orange & Black

This is the second car in the Halloween version of the Hot Rod Freaky Ford. The body is made from two layers of 3/4 inch MDF laminated together. In these cars I cut the MDF before gluing them up. I can't cut them well enough on a scrollsaw so there was lots of sanding involved to get the two halves to match. I can glue them and cut both at same time but with 1-1/2 inch thick material you have to cut very slow. I'm not sure yet which works best for me but I'm leaning toward the glue first method. Glue first makes getting the windows right much easier. Sanding inside the windows is quite difficult.

 Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 32 Deuce Coupe - Orange & Black

 Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 32 Deuce Coupe - Orange & Black

 Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 32 Deuce Coupe - Orange & Black

 Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 32 Deuce Coupe - Orange & Black

 Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 32 Deuce Coupe - Orange & Black

 Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 32 Deuce Coupe - Orange & Black

Wooden Toy Car, Hot Rod Freaky Ford, Orange, 27 T Coupe

A new version of the Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Coupe in Orange and Black Halloween colors.

The MDF body is primed and painted with Behr Orange Acrylic house paint and then top coated with Rust-oleum clear glaze. It took lots of coats to get the orange paint to cover evenly.  

The hubs and exhaust are painted with flat black acrylic craft paint and top coated with clear shellac. The wheels are finished with amber shellac. 

Tools used to make this car include:

• belt sander
• hand held drill
• drill press
• Japanese saw
• strip sander
• airbrush
• paint brush
• scroll saw
• circular saw

Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 27 T Coupe - MDF - Orange - Amber Shellac - Black

Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 27 T Coupe - MDF - Orange - Amber Shellac - Black

Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 27 T Coupe - MDF - Orange - Amber Shellac - Black

Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 27 T Coupe - MDF - Orange - Amber Shellac - Black

Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 27 T Coupe - MDF - Orange - Amber Shellac - Black

Wooden Toy Car - Hot Rod Freaky Ford - 27 T Coupe - MDF - Orange - Amber Shellac - Black

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Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck Experimental Fleet

The Play Pal Wooden Toy Trailer Truck Fleet

There are five toy trailer trucks in the test fleet. The 5th one is on a road trip somewhere with the QA guy and could not be located for the photo. 

The missing truck.

None of my toy trailer trucks to to date have followed the original pattern. It started with the wheels. I didn't think the trucks looked quite right  The wheels for these are very inexpensive when purchased in quantity. So why not. Yep that looks like a truck. When the first truck cab was snitched by my grandson who refused to give it back even to get trailer attached I knew dual wheels were a winner. 

Next came the round nose on the trailer.  On the first one I had to clip the corners on the trailer to get it to turn without hitting the cab.  On the second trailer I used a circle gauge to layout the curve and cut it on my scroll saw. I liked this well enough that I'll likely continue to use it.

Adding some rails.  I had heard from others toy makers that little boys like to put their cars on these. The Play Pal toys all fit on the trailer as do Hot Wheels and Match Box cars. When I gave Odin his first trailer the very first thing he did was put a car on it. It rolled off and my three year old QA guy promptly told me it was broken. 

The first rails I added were eye balled. This didn't work very well. It was to narrow for most of the cars we had and most of them would rolled over the edge. The second rails were thought out a bit better.  Higher and wider they keep the cars on the trailer when tilted to 45 degrees. 

The box trailer was just a whim that worked out very well. It looks a lot like the trucks the tree service guys use to haul away tree debris. This wasn't intentional. I didn't think of it until I was writing this.  An idea for a new design with an arm for picking up debris and some outriggers to prevent tip overs while loading.  This trailer was a bear to get in the clamps. Either I need to change the design or make a jig. It's way to hard to clamp the box trailer pieces together.

Play Pal Trailer Truck Box trailer in the clamps

Finished Play Pal Toy Truck With Box Trailer

Wooden Toy - Play Pal - Trailer - Truck - Blue - Box Trailer

Wooden Toy Play Pal  Box  Trailer Glue Up In The Clamps

This was an experimental build testing materials and construction techniques. The entire project was made from wood I had on hand. I mixed up the woods to see how the paint would work with the different woods. I came up with the trailer design after giving my grandson the first truck with a flat bed and the first thing he did was try to haul a car on the flat bed. It rolled right off. Blocks didn't stay on much better.

The box bed is made from Southern Yellow Pine left from a previous Toddler Rocking Horse Project.  The trailers under carriage is made from spruce and the cab is whitewood.  The wheels are  3/4 birch purchased from Craft Parts.  The axles are cut from birch dowels.

The finish is Behr Oops Paint from Home Depot purchased for $0.50. I applied it using a brush on bare wood. There are two coats of paint with a light sanding in between coats to remove the fuzzies.

The wheels are finished with one coat of amber shellac and the axle ends are finished with red acrylic craft paint.

The toy truck was turned over to my grandson for QA stress testing.

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Wooden Toy Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Coupe Lavender

A very shiny Ford 27 T Coupe Hot Rod.

My first listing with a truly glossy finish. I airbrushed with Behr Oops paint and top coated it with a clear acrylic glaze from a rattle can. The Rust-Oleum Triple Thick Glaze was really difficult for me to get smooth in the conditions I had to work with. With the slightest breeze over spray would blow around to the other side and stick causing a very rough surface that had to cure over night and be sanded smooth and resprayed. In addition, it had to be sprayed fairly wet to get a smooth coat meaning there was I high risk of getting a run or sag in the finish that I had to sand and recoat, But when it all came together the car looked like it was coated with glass. A real spray booth would have been a big help.

The Triple Thick Glaze also took a long time to cure hard enough to be handled much. The next day after spraying it was still soft enough the surface would dent easily. While I freely admit that this could be at least partly my fault, I had no such issues with the Krylon. One coat and it was done.

Lavender Wooden Toy Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Coupe - 01

Lavender Wooden Toy Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Coupe - 02

Lavender Wooden Toy Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Coupe - 03

Lavender Wooden Toy Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Coupe - 04

Lavender Wooden Toy Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Coupe - 05

Lavender Wooden Toy Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Coupe - 06

Rust-Oleum Triple Thick Glaze

Pink & Pink Play Pal Toy Trailer Truck Version 4 - The Car Hauler

Pink Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck  Car Hauler

Pink Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck  Car Hauler With Orange Bat Car

There are two different brands and shades of paint used here. Not intentionally. Someone decided ti would be OK to thin the paint directly in the can and the dark pink was unusable when I got it out. I learned since then that you should never thin paint you want to keep with tap water. Chemicals in the water can react with the paint and cause it to do strange things. Like set up hard inside the can. Forget keeping paint thined with other chemicals. That will not happen again. Not to me anyway.
The lighter pink on the trailer is Glidden and the cab is painted with Behr. Both are Oops paint from Home Depot. The Glidden paint on the trailer is flat so I coated it with clear shellac to brighten it up a bit and add a bit of durability.

The wheels on the cab are my first "successful" attempt at flush cutting the axles. Successful in that it was still usable when I got done.

The cab is made from BC plywood junk from home depot One of two that made it far enough to get painted. Once again the trailer is southern yellow pine with a spruce under carriage.
This is the car hauler trailer. The play Pal cars stay on the trailer up tp about 45 degrees and all the hot wheels cars I tested did the same. Even the Play Pal Van with its slightly longer wheel base fits. Pure luck. I made no attempt to measure for the trailer length. After I made my first one I realized that the length would not matter in most cases unless it was crazy long. I just squared the ends and made a trailer. The trailer beds are made from wood left from building a rocking horse. All of the trailers are different lengths.

One of the nice thing about making small toys is that there is little that goes to waste.

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Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck Version 3

Orange Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck  With Dual Wheels & Rail

This one is pretty much the same as version 2 as far as the paint goes.

I added a low rail around the edge of the bed to keep things from sliding or rolling off. It works ok for small toys and blocks but most of the Hot Wheels cars we have will go over the edge easily. Small wood blocks stay on it quite well.

The cab is made from BC plywood. Another experiment. You can make these from BC plywood but if you have another choice don't use it. I tossed several of these in the trash because of voids in the plywood and laminations separating.

The trailer bed is constructed from southern yellow pine with a spruce undercarriage. I cut the rails using a Grr-Ripper and my Shopsmith bandsaw.

The rear axles on the cab are flush cut. I cut them longer than needed and after they are dry I used a flush cutting saw to trim them and added a touch of shellac. When making the axles to do this you need to have them sticking out at least 2 or three times the width of the saw kerf or your going to have a tough time getting a smooth cut. It's not the easiest thing to do I ruined a few wheels getting the hang of it.

This one is a bit rougher than I would like but I got tired of messing with the plywood. This was before my grandson decided my experimental trucks were his. He took off with one of them before I had thought about making trailers. I had to sneak it back into the shop to drill the hitch hole.

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