Hi, everyone!
Life keeps happening, so I am building at a snail's pace, but I keep tinkering away.
Since I work alone, I often forget to take pictures.
So just let me tell you where I am, and I'll try to find some pictures another time.
I bought the Northern Tools 5x8 trailer to give myself a wider footprint. It is already registered as an enclosed utility trailer. The floor is again ½ inch ply, but since I had to buy extra to make it 5 ft wide, I ran a cut-off sheet, 8 ft long down the center where we will walk, for extra support. Dear stepdad helped me with the floor and vinyl flooring, and is ready to help stand up the walls and get into the REALLY messy gluing. Wooden frames are installed in both side walls for the windows, and hard points are installed in the street-side interior wall. I want to put one more scrap on the outside rear to hang an attachment point for a side table. I have the interior of that wall all sanded and ready for skinning (in fact, I was sanding it tonight when a couple of missionaries drove me inside). Well, I was losing the light anyway.
Oh, I have the pieces for the roof spliced, the edges rounded, and the top canvased. The interior of the top is canvased, too. Then when needed I'll just use a 6" wide strip of canvas to "tape" the joints.
Things I still need to do, well it's a long list. Install hard points in the curb-side wall, including another side table support on the outside. Sand, sand, sand. I plan to skin the front wall tomorrow after work, if it isn't raining. (Not that I'm complaining! We LIKE rain here in the dry west! But it does slow things down occasionally this time of year.) I'll also start routing out for the wooden hard points in the curb side wall. From experience, that'll take a couple of days! Then glue, and once it is dry, sand and canvas. Then the back wall, which includes the door, and I have all the parts from Penguino 1 for that, I just have to get to work on it. I had a 24" wide door in Penguino 1, but I think I'll go 30" this time. Oh, and canvas, canvas, canvas.
Bench seats will go along the sides and front, and will form a booth for dining and games and boy-plots and such. (Dear son still sees this as his boy cave when we aren't camping.)
The bench seats from Penguino 1 are long gone (fortunately I have scrap foam to build more), but I still have the table top.
Good thing I already finished sanding tonight. Just writing out that list makes me tired!
Catherine
Build Thread Penguino II:
viewtopic.php?f=55&t=54919Build Thread Penguino I:
viewtopic.php?t=44431"Oh, let's just stay here and sing camp songs for a while." 1966, My mom in Isle Royale, MN, in a women's bath house with a momma bear and two cubs outside the door, and three tired kids trapped inside
"Dad! Dad! There's a bear outside!" 1967, Lolo Hot Springs, MT, in a tent-top trailer
"Oh, no, there it goes!!" Nov 10, 2012 as Penguino I blew over in high winds