I couldn't find many good references on this subject so I used what I found to make this. In 1930's France there was a lot of "cottage industry" so there were lots of hand built furniture and stuff around.. so I used what I found as a base and used "artistic licene" to come up with this.

It is my version of a simple wood cookstove. found in any French commonar's cottage. prob made by a local blacksmith or such..

It hasn't been painted yet and the top is just drawn on for reference.. I"ll prob paint it flat black with nickle plated handles (which seems comman on cookstoves of the period)

scaled up measurentments would be

Back height 3 foot 2 inchs
Front hieght 2 foot 8 inchs
With 4' 7" and depth 1' 8"

when built a bit taller it seemed to large to go with the scale figures so it might be a bit undersized.. but then the french were small.. and lived in small cottages..

comments welcome... :-)

Great job and idea Delbert.
Should look excellent in a small cottage.
Two tips/hints, if I may. From personal experience, I have actualy cooked on an AGA, on the left, above your Burner and small oven, would be the chimney attachment rather than a cooking ring. The rings are usualy on one side, with the otherside being warm, but not very hot. But that was the one I cooked on, there are many different versions/types of cooker.
I would paint the stove in semi gloss black, as they were usualy shiny, and well looked after.

Good job
Henk

That looks really good to my old eyes..... nice job.
Now that you've been bitten by the scratch-building bug....
a whole new world of modelling opens up before you......

Ola Delbert

That looks quite like the old Etna stoves you find regularly here in the secondhand shops. Great Job on that.
Actually these stoves often were of some sort of Enamelled stuff and were quite shiney as Henk also mentioned. I have seen them also in Blue and White and often a combination of those colors are found too.

Great job.

two things - what about hinges and grates over the burners?

Other than that I think it looks really good. Recommend flat black with steal drybrushing???

Looks good, but for inspiration sake, here are some pages to 1920's stoves

http://www.goodtimestove.com/kitchen_ranges/1920_stewart_specs.html

and

http://www.goodtimestove.com/kitchen_ranges/1920_glenwood_ins_del_side.html

great job there...the "bug" bites hard...
Slodder, the hinges are hidden on most stoves and no grates for wood burning. They would have a solid plates with a notch (like a manhole cover) a a removable handle

question asked - and answered - thanks.

really nice, where did you make that thing from.

Greetz robster

Great job, Love it,
How did you do it and what scale is it ?








Were they actually smaller !!!!!
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MagicBart #:-)

A vent pipe....and some weathering around the doors and the burner top...unless the dio is of a showroom display. (:-)

I made it from plastruct styrene.. flat sheets.. and wire.

its scale is 1/35 th aprox...

and this was about as far as I got before I decided that that wasn't the way I wanted to go with that project.. moved on to a stove built out of a 1/35 th 55 gal drum..(see other stove post). got it put away for future use... someday...

:-)