speed weigand camper / Dingo

[hotwheels000]

I finally had a chance to work on the camper. Originally I had it slated for another build but this idea popped into my head.

The idea was to adapt the camper to fit a Dingo body. It was fairly straight forward. I needed to shorten the tail of the camper and also narrow the overall width. I did this before I glued any of the pieces together.

I will also need to trim 1/8th inch from the Dingo cage. Simple task of removing the roll bar and taking the material off the bottom of the posts,then re-attach

Pics tell the rest.





Glueing and clamping stages. I did not follow the directions.....BIG SUPRIZE

This is the final clamping it was a 2 stage affair the way I did it.

Step 1 was to glue the sides and all cross pieces in.

Next step was glueing roof on and clamping it



I let the glue dry over night, probally not needed but it was good and set in the mornings. Elmers wood glue was used thru-out.

I may add a interior...or.... just tint the windows We will see how much time I have over the holidays

[SCALER14]

Looks great!! Does it add lots off weight?

[Snowmaninhell]

Looking good Dev.

[hotwheels000]

Originally Posted by SCALER14

Looks great!! Does it add lots off weight?

Thank you,it weighs 11 oz cut down like that

Originally Posted by Snowmaninhell

Looking good Dev.

We need to do a camper run together. Yours is the reason I decided to build one. Hope to at least be able to stay in the same park as yours

Where did you purchase you sink and othe misc do-dads ?

[Snowmaninhell]

I'm down for a camper run. I'm glad to see another local do one as well. Speed Weigand seems to have designed a nice kit. I got the sink and stove off of Ebay. They're for a 1/12 scale doll house. It took a while of looking and waiting for just the right stove and sink that I liked for the build to be listed. Everything else I built from scratch. The cupboard doors are from bass wood stock I got from my LHS. Same goes for the framing and siding. The clear plastic windows are from a fruit container from Costco. I wired my LEDs wrong and just about blew the 9v up...OOOPS! Caught it in time and disconnected it....Phew!

[hotwheels000]

Thanks Russ, your attention to detail and patience is second to none. Now I need to decide how creative I want to get... if at all.

Do you know if there is a local supplier in the Seattle/Tacoma/Everett area ?

[Snowmaninhell]

Supplier for what?

[hotwheels000]

The doll house minitures.

[Snowmaninhell]

No. I just relied on ebay. There aren't any here in Port Orchard and I didn't feel like wasting gas driving all over the place.

[hotwheels000]

Thanks Russ.

Mounted to body and windows cut out,it is just setting on a spare chassis right now.

[1rcmonster]

Camper looks really good shortened up and on the Dingo.

As for the dollhouse supplies, Hobby Lobby has them, if they are in your area. Otherwise, check out, Dejoux Dollhouse Miniatures & Accessories | Online Store, I have bought the fire extinguisher and other stuff from them.

I also built this camper and cut my windows from 1/8" lexan, painted them black on the inside and shoe goo'd them into place. I used masking tape on the lexan them traced the opening onto the masking tape. I cut them bigger than my tracing on a scrollsaw and then dremelled them to a snug fit.

[hotwheels000]

Thanks for the links,time to go shopping.

[blakeski]

looks cool dev!! if i get the winnie running maybe i could tag along for a "camper" run..lol... just been busy working these hellish hours no time to build right now...

[hotwheels000]

Sounds great, Gus is going to be building a trailer so we could really mix it up on a trail run

Originally Posted by blakeski

looks cool dev!! if i get the winnie running maybe i could tag along for a "camper" run..lol... just been busy working these hellish hours no time to build right now...

[Snowmaninhell]

The more the merrier. So now I really need to get mine finished...

[hotwheels000]

yep

[Tin Soldier]

Thats really cool! I love how everyone mods them just a bit different for their own unique flare. :-)

[Speedweigand]

Look awesome! I love that you hacked it up

[Tin Soldier]

Originally Posted by Speedweigand

Look awesome! I love that you hacked it up

I love that it's a year later and you found this post. haha. Seriously though, there were never any pix of the finished rig. Where are they?

[hotwheels000]

I am terrible build thread follow thru....ended up selling the rig to my neighbor kid for cheap, he wanted to get into the hobby