How to make a steam Locomotive wheel?

I want a wheel that looks like this:


but how would i make the holes in the wheels and make that curve on the counter weight using tools like union and negate?

I think blender would work best for something like this. But, unions would work.

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oh ok then, but if i wanted to use unions what kind of shapes would I use?

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I believe you’re going to want to use hinges to construct it so that it reflects the real life design. However, you’re going to want to be precise with your measurements.

yea Measurements are important here so the wheel doesn’t look oversized or strange.
Thanks for the feedback.

Ok ive decided to make the wheel in blender and this is the result:


Not super accurate but enough for me.

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you can make the base of the wheel with a cilinder and then add an other cilinder that’s smaller and union them (select the smaller cilinder and click negate, select both cilinders and click union) so you have a hole in the wheel, you can do that until you get what you want (sorry i’m bad at explaining stuff)

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Ok i guess i can do this with other wheels in the future

Looks good, could use some more detail, but it’ll work,