US Mail Truck bank

[Bushwhacker]

A while back I posted shots of my shop and along with that I posted some of the work I was doing. One of the projects was a wooden US Mail truck bank. I was making a piggy bank in the shape of a postal truck for my friend a retired Army Sgt Maj who is now retiring from the postal service.
Here are some pictures of the beginning of the bank and the finished truck.
I took a picture of him sitting in his truck one day and he did not know what my plans were for the foto. I cut it down and placed him in the truck. I also found a picture of a stack of boxes and placed his head in the middle of the windshield as if he was buried in boxes. I had a mail box lock that I installed as the back door.
He will be retiring in Feb but due to his having knee problems and may have surgery soon, he may hang it up early. So, we will be presenting him with his bank next week.

[Herb Stoops]

That is so cool,David, I love it. You are so creative.
Herb

[MEBCWD]

Neat project. That will hold a lot of pennys.

[Cherryville Chuck]

I love the logos on the side of the truck. They look dead on accurate.

[Bushwhacker]

Lets attempt this again. I had problems with this this morning. Seems to be working well now.
I appreciate the nice responses to my Mail Truck Bank build.
The whole thing with the exception of the locking door on the back was already in my shop. Actually, the locking door was there too. I have had it for a few years and finally got around to using it.
It is made out of plywood. The decals of the Postal Icon were printed off line on photo paper and glued on, the strips were hand painted. The wheels were a fun thing to make. I cut them out on my band saw and then attempted to round the edges on my router table.
I barely touched the bit with the first wheel when i was under my cabinets looking for the wheel that had gotten flung across the room.
Once I verified that I still had 10 fingers, I forced a piece of doweling in the center hole and sanded them on my belt sander.
The clearance lights and the stop lights came from a pad of stickers that Sandra had around. The head lights were 1/8th " slices off a piece of 1/2 " PVC and glued on . The lights them selves were specialty washers I had in a jar. They just happened to fit right into the head light frames.
After posting the pictures of it on the forum, I noticed that the front grill was not well centered and it needed some sort of a frame around it.
I repainted it and added the tongue part of a piece of T&G that I cut off to frame it and it worked pretty good.
Thanks again guys.

Bushwhacker ( David)

[Bushwhacker]

woohoo !! It worked this time.

[Herb Stoops]

Nicely done David,and well thought out.
HErb