Ok so, I know it's been way overdue, but I finally am getting close to being done.
I suffered a major setback in the form of some leakage which ended up busting most of my seams
and really just disgusted me to the point I was going to scrap it and start all over again
But a good friend of mine convinced me that we could salvage it, so he come over for a weekend
and we completely sanded it down to bare wood again and started over.
The fenders completed
at this point it had 6 coats of a grey tinted kool seal, which I ended up HATING (looked like primer)
Putting the side skirts on
The fenders were completely encapsulated in an asphalt fence paint (which by the way is almost impossible to get off)
I missed taking pictures of a few steps to this point. It had another six coats of white kool seal,
but I didn't like the flat finish, so I did a two tone paint job with rustoleum enamel satin finish, which looked great.
also did a silver stripe between the black and white (but no picture of that)
Ok so here is the point it all went wrong, due to the crazy heat down here and lack of long enough screws,
the front window pulled loose from the body and let water leak in which soaked in through out and caused the wood to swell
which busted a big portion of my seams. so thats when I gave up on it, just tarped it up and let it sit until 3 weeks ago.
I did'nt take any pics of the redoing aspect because I was rushing to get it done to go camping.
here it is! We took it down to bare wood then epoxy resined and fiberglass taped all of the seams,
then coated it with 3 coats of this product I found called deck armor, It's like a bedliner type material but
can be colored in about 30 different colors. It's pretty cool is about 1/4" thick and still has a flexable aspect to it but grips to the wood like krazy glue.
I then painted the bottom skirting with rustoleom spray enamel to break up the colors alittle bit.
this is a better shot of the true color, it's called sandstone
As you can see I also built a window cover to protect that big front window, but whats really cool about it is.....
It also doubles as a huge table that makes all the space over the tongue useable. Tadah instant galley
I left the legs long so that I can string camping lights from it.
the inside is not completed yet but It is enough to go camping this week.
I left the stand on the tv/dvd player so that we can take it out when we are camping and have it outside with us.
cubbies for clothes and inside storage to the left and right, a/c at the bottom.
simple lighting setup two 12 volt lights above the head of the bed and then the 4 little dots above those are blue led accent lights, which look very cool at night.
I still need to skin the inside and paint cover or what I don't know yet, but it is campable and going this week.
Oh and the front window is now BOLTED in so hopefully no more leaks.
by Deryk the Pirate » Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:37 pm 
. Enjoy camping in it bud!
