Miniature Time Traveller Issue 1

Miniature Time Traveller Magazine Issue #1/10 The 1940’s Milk Carrier Materials: 1 x Tongue Depressor Sandpaper Acrylic paints, your colours Wood glue (sticky) A wooden skewer Pegs for holding work while it dries. Mark out your tongue depressor as shown alongside. DO NOT CUT YET It is easier to drill your hole for the handle before anything else, or it may split. Use a drill bit the same width as a skewer. The ends are cut from the two rounded ends, 1 & 1/2” long. The sides are cut from the middle Mark the shape of the sides of the top. Using a knife or cutters cut the DIAGONAL LINE first. Then snip or cut down from the top to the corner of the diagonal line. Sometimes this splits naturally. Using whichever method is easier for you, glue the sides to the base and then the ends to the ends of the sides and base. Make sure sides are perpendicular to each other. If you glue the handle in it will make it stable for painting. Using the colour you want for the 1st coat, paint the entire thing, apart from base if you want to leave it. You will sand down a bit to this colour. Make it fairly thick. When dry paint on the final colour. When that is dry, lightly sand the corners, edges and a bit where hands might wear the handle. Base 1/2” wide x 1 1/12 Long Length of skewer 1 1/4 “ long Clever things to do with Tongue Depressors—also see page 23 HINT: If you tape 4 tongue depressors together and then drill the central holes in the ends first it reduces the risk of splitting and you get 4 potential carriers! You can keep things taped together to cut out the other pieces and it keeps your cuts sharp and clean. Don’t be upset if the wood does spilt, some depressors are better than others. A 1940’s Milk bottle carrier Dulcie Turner of LHMM, Petone, painting her milk carrier