Somethign defferent - Toy for my son (that he can have now instead of 10years)

Here the timeline from my personal face book page;

So at My son's nursery they have these wooden trucks  big enough for a 3/4year old to ride on. Thomas is mad about them but they cost £120. Since i recently bought a chop saw I decided I could build my own for less and much cooler looking using the same materials. I decided on aims; it would be tough enough to last 100years, Appeal to a child's idea of what a truck looks like and simple design and resist the urged to add detail.

The second pic is the roughed out 3D design I came up with. Once the wood shows up and I know whats sizes I have I should be able to build a scale 3d model and get started.

Nostalgic for me as a child I'd spend Sundays building wooden toys with my grandfather.

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So once I knew the sizes of the maple i could buy and what size the casters i could use, I redrew my design to scale and added added the colour scheme.

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 Once the wood arrived i chopped everything to length. This is where i found out my chop saw doesn't really cut straight lines ho hum.

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First I got the chassic up and rolling and then placed all the blocks out to see how it was shaping up.

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There was about 2 weeks of doweling, screwing, plaining and sanding to get us to this point

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Then is was onto painting which was helped by the great weather we had here.

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And the finsihed product with its happy new owner. It ended up costing the same but mine used more wood,  better parts and was painted but defiantly cooler!