Gypsy Caravan

[Steve_Cox]

Hey, I gotta top.......oops, that's a different thread

I think you may be right...he's leading us astray with hidden colors.

I might need some help with colors, trim ideas and stuff like that. You know when I built my teardrop Kerry finished the trim on it with photoshop

[Outlaw]

C'mon Steve, what's taking so long??????

[Steve_Cox]

C'mon Steve, what's taking so long??????

I actually worked today, for a change, and Kim got me to decorate the outside of the house for the trick or treaters when I got home.

I hope to put the roof on this weekend. I'm going to prebend the plywood on a jig and while it is bent put CPES on it to see if it will hold some of the curve. Whata ya think?

[planovet]

I hope to put the roof on this weekend. I'm going to prebend the plywood on a jig and while it is bent put CPES on it to see if it will hold some of the curve. Whata ya think?

I was think about that very same thing, only in reverse. I was wondering if you put CPES on a piece of 1/8 birch, would it make it harder to follow a curve?

[Steve_Cox]

I was verifying the 12 volt wiring again and found one of my lighting ground wires isn't working. Guess that is a good reason to put wires in a raceway instead of in the walls like I did. Not a problem, just a delay, seems it was a faulty butt splice (inside the front wall) I had considered putting the wiring under the trim on the interior, that's the way I'd always done it in boats, but no, I took the easy way and just drilled holes in the framing to run the wires in the walls. Another lesson learned.

Speaking of wiring, I got a deal on E-bay on a 30 Amp 12 volt power converter with automatic battery charging. $36 + shipping. It was unused but a couple of years old.

[EffieRover]

I might need some help with colors, trim ideas and stuff like that. You know when I built my teardrop Kerry finished the trim on it with photoshop

Can you post straight-on of the side and front to mock up? Or a 45degree corner? I'd like to work something up ... just for fun.

[Steve_Cox]

I might need some help with colors, trim ideas and stuff like that. You know when I built my teardrop Kerry finished the trim on it with photoshop

Can you post straight-on of the side and front to mock up? Or a 45degree corner? I'd like to work something up ... just for fun.

I'll roll it out tomorrow and take a few updated pictures(if it's not raining), side, front, back, 45 degree. This sounds like fun .......

edit:

Here ya go! I stuck the back window in for the pictures. Modern RV window isn't quite gypsy wagonish, but I couldn't beat the price for an opening awning window that size. About $50 on E-bay.

[Steve_Cox]

I got the middle third of the roof epoxied on today. Got epoxy drips in my hair.... that was fun

[Micro469]

O.K. .... Ya gotta explain to me what the MIDDLE THIRD is....... Middle= half.....Third = a little less tan that....



OH WAIT!!! You mean the third piece thats in the middle?????? Did you allready do the first third...... or the last third????????

[Steve_Cox]

Hi John,

Ok first of all, I don't care how ya say it up North. Middle is is in the center down here.

I put the center piece on first so I could clamp both sides (front and back) to the roof spars.

[Outlaw]

Steve, food for thought . . .

Gypsy Vardo plans, available from Steve Cox . . .

[Steve_Cox]

Steve, food for thought . . .

Gypsy Vardo plans, available from Steve Cox . . .

Eric,

How about a coffee table book?

[Outlaw]

That would work as well

Seriously though, did you find plans somewhere? Or, is this your own creation? Or, perhaps a little of both? Regardless, I really~really love these little trailers!

[Steve_Cox]

That would work as well

Seriously though, did you find plans somewhere? Or, is this your own creation? Or, perhaps a little of both? Regardless, I really~really love these little trailers!

Eric,


This is totally my creation (I say as I work myself into a corner). I built on a HF frame so it would be easy for just about any handi-person to make one like it. Here is a small sampling of my inspiration for building

[mikeschn]

I can't wait to see what paint job you come up with... will it look anything like this?

http://picasaweb.google.com/staugustine ... 1416038386

Mike...