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April 1st ~ 3rd - Battery Pallet to .50 Cal Ammo Crate When the new Dodge battery arrived, it came on a nice big wooden pallet. I didn't need a pallet, but there was a decent amount of wood in it that I saw as potentially useful. It took some dismantling as the nails were all barbed, but eventually I got all the planks separated. The plan was to make another .50 Cal ammo crate. I'd made two a couple of years ago to carry some of the camping accessories and with the new look Dodge, another as an accessory would be a useful display item as well as being able to store and carry stuff. The curved inset handle on each end
was cut from a strip of wood on my bandsaw. This strip was then glued
back into the end panel. Once they were done, the box sides and ends
were assembled onto the base. The holes in the lid were marked up and
the inner diameter of the tapered hole cut with a hole saw. The centre
piece was broken out with a chisel and the outer taper carved out with a
scalpel and finished with a mini sanding drum. |
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The box was painted with an olive drab I mixed myself from left over emulsion tester pots. I mixed the paint with waterproof PVA glue to strengthen the wood, as some of the planks were quite a low density. The glue helped to toughen up the outer fibres and waterproof the box for those less than ideal show days! I still had the stencils I cut for the original boxes. They'd been printed on paper, onto which I applied 2 inch Sellotape. This toughened up the paper for the small cuts in the lettering and makes them last longer when painted over. The paint was applied with both a stippling brush and sponge, used quite dry to minimise paint creep under the stencil. A couple of coats of yellow Humbrol modelling enamel was enough to give a reasonable coverage, without tooking too perfect up close. The new .50 Cal crate, seen in a slightly lighter green with some of my other boxes, will be a useful addition to my Dodge. |
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