Vintage Crates in 7/8ths Scale.
I had previously made the vintage crates as resin castings in an attempt to make mass production for my own use faster and easier. I was really happy with the outcome, however being able to use wood for wood crates is a realism that is hard to match with resin castings. The second advantage of using wood for the crates is the dislike I have developed for casting in resin.
While resin casting is rewarding and a great means to mass cloning a master, I was never fond of the waste and not so user friendly chemicals. I still use resin when needed and I do keep it to an absolute minimum these days. One builds up an allergy to resin through prolonged use.
With the addition of a laser cutter to the workshop it is rewarding being able to cut sheets of crates as needed. I use basswood and or pine for the crates and have spent many hours online searching for vintage labels to apply to the crates. Once I find a source of labels it is just a matter of scaling them 7/8ths and positioning a page full. I found that the Epson presentation matt light paper is the lightest paper I could find and still yield a high quality result that is water proof when printed. The light weight paper also has a more scale appearance rather than looking like card stock once applied.
Here are a couple of my favorite labels:
Here are some of the completed vegetable and fruit crates. Now to add actual content in the crates. I plan on using Sculpey polymer clay to create the produce.
