Playing around with my old "Lost World" project. Experimenting with Sweeper. Needed a suitable hand truck to move boxes around.

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-vern

Thats a nice truck ,very ornate just like the Victorians nice model Vern
edit allthough I think maybe the wheels are a bit modern ,just one wheel and strugle

sweet

Nice!
I like it.

Send that design to market and make $ in the real world!

Steve does have a point with the modern wheels.
As one wheel would automatically cause issues of balancing I'll suggest three.
Two on the side and one staggered back in the center/rear.
All three wheels would then stay on the ground while the platform/handle rotates forward/up and back/down.

Regardless, that is a very cool hand truck.

As a former appliance-store stockboy I gotta say...SWEET!

Vern- Your 'bogus' product package design is SO cool... when you were a kid were you a big fan of WACKY-PACKS?

Just the thing you needed to move your steamer trunk.

I was a HUGE fan of Wacky Packs! I loved those things. I had stacks of 'em as a kid. Collected them like crazy. I wish I had saved them. I think that is where my "fake product" ideas originated.

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As for the the 3 wheels on the truck... that is actually from a real world design:
http://www.asia.ru/ProductInfo/1347408.html

They make going up steps easier. Yes they do look too modern so I plan to make the "Y" shape more ornate with filigree metal designs so it fits with the rest. The rubber wheels should be okay. The setting is "old meets new" sort of like "steampunk" but not exactly. I figure they use "old" stuff but update it. Put on rubber wheels. I think the "platform" area at the bottom is too modern as well (the concentric circles). I may make that a bit more fancy. After reading a recent post about Steampunk I realized that a part of that genre influences some of these ideas. Not overtly (except for my mechanical image contest entry of the steam powered computer). That sort of bizarre anachronistic mix of old and modern.

I went back to my old "Lost World" project which was starting to lean heavy towards steampunk (I didn't know what it was at the time of course) and have been adding stuff and finishing it up now that I have a fast computer. I put a pile of boxes of my "products" stacked in the "back" and realized I needed a hand truck in there to move these things. I did a search for "antique" hand trucks but they don't seem to exist in that form. The most I could find were great big wooden wheeled carts. If anyone can actually find photos of "Victorian era" hand trucks I would love to see it. They probably wouldn't be so fancy though.

-vern

Found this one Vern but its not ornate enough for you I reckon

That's GREAT Steve! The wheels the wheels!!! I love the wheels. I could do old fashioned spoke wheels like that with leather instead of rubber or maybe just thin rubber. I will probably end up having a couple of different hand trucks with different styles.

EDIT: I also like how it gets "wider" at the top. It flares out. That gives it some more style, drama.

-vern

I think its the racing model lol

Love your hand truck design!

I own an antique hand truck that dates anywhere from the late 19th century to the late 1920's (more likely the latter). It looks almost exactly like the one in the attached picture.

Here is one that is typical for the 19th century. The blades are usually short and at an angle wider that 90 degrees.

How about this?

Those are GREAT! I should do a couple versions. I finished my original one but haven't rendered it yet. I redid all the scroll work and made the wheels more fitting to the time period. Still has the six wheels but now they look "old fashioned". I love those wooden ones...

... uh... that last picture... er... looks kind of... "risky" for the young lady if you ask me. I can't believe they would have ridden around like that and not have gotten arrested.


-vern

I'm not sure there were even any brakes on those things! Unless that is what she has hold of in the picture...

It did have a lamp for night time travel, though.