OK, so a good friend and neighbor is originally from Hungary and he has two small girls and speaks Hungarian and English to them. My daughter is friends with them and one of his girls just had her birthday not too long ago so I figure this is good enough reason as any to do another pair of wagon builds starting with the older girl.
A foreword about metal radio flyer wagons: I've been building these for going on 10 years now and the truth is although the metal ones have fallen out of favor for the big ballooney plastic ones, but you can still buy these new on the ebays or wherever. A full-sized new wagon should cost about $77 and a mini one like this about $26. Wagons are not worth a lot of money and not going to be worth a lot of money, IMO, until they stop making them new. I don't do builds with rusty, scratched up junk that other people think is worth $$$ on CL or wherever.
Both of these wagons I bought recently for under $20each shipped for gently used wagons and you shouldn't expect to pay much more than this either.
So enough about that.
I know very little about Hungary other than it's an old Eastern European country and after an interwebs search I found out that the flag colors are white, green, and red and the rubik's cube was invented there. Enough for me to work with for now. Colors of the wagon? I'm thinking I don't need to respray the tub so I'll keep the red and the Radio Flyer stickers. White drop-in bedliner, handle, wheels, and brackets. On the bedliner I'll draw in the Eagle design with red and green wings. Also, going to add a small "fuel" tank hanging off the rear with leather straps. The handle knob I'm going to use a mini-rubiks cube.
That's a lot of colors and borderline "clown car." I want to be careful here. I don't want to do something that looks ridiculous. I want to honor his home country.
So I started to take one of the wagons apart yesterday and see what we got. This one has been used more than the other wagon and has some stratching on the tub and underside. If I was going to repaint the tub I wouldn't care, but I pulled the other wagon out instead. You can see the picture of the design to the right of this wagon that I'll paint on the bedliner.
Much better. No scratches so I'm going to go with this one instead.
A foreword about metal radio flyer wagons: I've been building these for going on 10 years now and the truth is although the metal ones have fallen out of favor for the big ballooney plastic ones, but you can still buy these new on the ebays or wherever. A full-sized new wagon should cost about $77 and a mini one like this about $26. Wagons are not worth a lot of money and not going to be worth a lot of money, IMO, until they stop making them new. I don't do builds with rusty, scratched up junk that other people think is worth $$$ on CL or wherever.
Both of these wagons I bought recently for under $20each shipped for gently used wagons and you shouldn't expect to pay much more than this either.
So enough about that.
I know very little about Hungary other than it's an old Eastern European country and after an interwebs search I found out that the flag colors are white, green, and red and the rubik's cube was invented there. Enough for me to work with for now. Colors of the wagon? I'm thinking I don't need to respray the tub so I'll keep the red and the Radio Flyer stickers. White drop-in bedliner, handle, wheels, and brackets. On the bedliner I'll draw in the Eagle design with red and green wings. Also, going to add a small "fuel" tank hanging off the rear with leather straps. The handle knob I'm going to use a mini-rubiks cube.
That's a lot of colors and borderline "clown car." I want to be careful here. I don't want to do something that looks ridiculous. I want to honor his home country.
So I started to take one of the wagons apart yesterday and see what we got. This one has been used more than the other wagon and has some stratching on the tub and underside. If I was going to repaint the tub I wouldn't care, but I pulled the other wagon out instead. You can see the picture of the design to the right of this wagon that I'll paint on the bedliner.
Much better. No scratches so I'm going to go with this one instead.