Winter warrior plans?

[wallydog]

I am very interested in building a Winter Warrior pop up. Can anyone tell me if and where I can find plans for one of these. I could probably design one myself but it seems like a lot of trial and fitting to get the geometry correct.

[Dewi]

http://www.mikenchell.com/winterwarriorpage.html

And some nice 3D piccies as well... looks the business!

Cheers, Dewi

[wallydog]

I can't find any program to open a wrl file. Anyone have a solution? Thanks.

[Dewi]

Might be something in here...

http://tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?t=1413

Cheers, Dewi

[wallydog]

Thanks for your help dewi, but I haven't had any luck trying to open a wrl file. Don't have a clue as to what it is but I am not really up on cad programs and I suspect that's what this is. Back to the drawing board I guess, I was hoping to get started a build real quick to get some use this summer.
Thanks again.

[Dewi]

Just did a quick search and found this...

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/B.Buxton/ ... 20Explorer

Hope it helps.

I might be wrong though... the plans are in PDF format here...

http://www.mikenchell.com/images/metricwarrior.pdf

The VRML files are visuals I think.

Cheers, Dewi

[starleen2]

I don't know of any "Plans" But there are at least three in the Hall of Fame - and one just completed - a smaller version. Currently I'm building a version of the optimized Winter warrior - It has a similar design, but instead of the angular profile, it has more curves - check out the build thread - maybe it'll give you some ideas

[RAYVILLIAN]

Welcome Wallydog
I used the metric plans from angib

http://www.mikenchell.com/images/metricwarrior.pdf

Pay close attention to detail 1 and 4 without the offset on the hatch side walls you have a triangle hole in the side when the top is up.

If you use a hurricane type hinge you have to put a gutter on the open side of the hinge because they aren't water proof from both directions. I'd use a piano hinge with a rubber seal over the top on my next one.

The original design has the swing down hatch wall hinged at the bottom I'd recommend that you hinge it at the top. At the bottom you have to lift the top than lift the wall into place. Hinged at the top it swings down into place as you raise the top.

An idea that I'll use next time is to put a exterior door into the seat storage it tends to be a pain to move the cushions to get to stuff stored there so I don't use them as much as I would if I could put stuff in from the outside.

The build isn't as hard as it would seem. I built the sides in 3 sections, front outside, rear inner wall and hatch sides. Then assembled the front outside and inner wall on the trailer floor and put the top on the front. Than screwed the hatch walls to the front half of the trailer to hold them in place to put the roof on the hatch.

Hope that this helps and doesn't confuse you to much. I think that this is one of the most comfortable and practical designs out there but I am a bit bias.

If I can help in anyway just PM me.

Gary

[mikeschn]

wrl files are easily viewed using the Cortona viewer... which you can grab here...

http://www.cortona3d.com/cortona

Mike...

[wallydog]

Thanks to everyone for helping with the Winter Warrior plans, I now have a complete ASA set of plans but I have now decided to build my own plan for the first build and see how that works out. I have had a plan in my head for a few years now and want to try a 10 x 5 foot with a left side pull out extension to make a 9 foot long sleeping area crosswise at the front of the trailer and a 4 foot galley that slides out of the right side at the rear.
I'm still working on the plans and hope to start on the trailer in the next couple of weeks as I will engineer the slide out as I go. Hope it all works!