20 mule team

[Hoppy]

Although like you I build ships I was given a 20 mile team borax model kit Thought it would be a nice break but there are only 19 mules I am seeking to purchase one mule to complete the model

 

[Roger Pellett]

What scale?

 

[Smithy]

There's a dead mule in the desert in every cowboy movie (sometimes in the dessert too).

If anyone ever asks where #20 is - 'It died, so we ate it.'

 

[Hoppy]

What scale?

Closest I can come is 1/67

 

[Hoppy]

There's a dead mule in the desert in every cowboy movie (sometimes in the dessert too).

If anyone ever asks where #20 is - 'It died, so we ate it.'

 

[Hoppy]

Thanks that is a good suggestion obviously you have a great sense of humor

 

[pebbleworm]

Where are you? I probably have one if I can find it. The recent blue plastic doesn't respond well to most solvent adhesives....

 

[Jerome]

Maybe RTV rubber / cast the one you need.
If I recall there are two different mules in that kit.

 

[Bob Cleek]

I built two of those kits years ago. The mules should be very easy to cast duplicates in epoxy resin. I'd make a couple of extras and tie them to the water wagon at the end of the "train." I'm sure they carried a "spare" or two in the "trunk"

Indeed, those kits were made of some strange type of plastic that was different from the usual kit styrene of the day. I found Duco cement worked fine for an adhesive, though. The worst part of the 20 Mule Team model was the tedium of freehand painting the tack harness on the mules.

 

[BradNSW]

I visited the borax mines in Death Valley and agree with Hoppy.

The desert took its toll and one succumbed to the wicked heat, so you're down to 19.