Casual camping
Bill Ward has made a very cool compact caravan. It’s based on a Shasta Teardrop Travel Trailer. While the doors are a little hard to find I suspect most of us could whip up a little variant of this to show off in a display.
EDIT We liked this one so much that Andrew blogged it too:
Details like the vent on the roof and Bill’s choice of the old-style door are excellent. The trailer is being pulled by the SUV from 7635 4WD with Horse Trailer
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December 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Oops! Off to delete my post…
Here’s what I’d said:
Details like the vent on the roof and Bill’s choice of the old-style door are excellent. The trailer is being pulled by the SUV from 7635 4WD with Horse Trailer
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December 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
So much for the double feature.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:27 am
It’s amazing what he can do when he’s not drumming for Black Sabbath. ;)
December 18th, 2008 at 1:53 am
You’re not seriously saying that those doors are rare, are you? I have about 200 lying around a I think…
Great caravan, though. Somehow they only MOC I ever used one of those doors for also was a caravan….
December 18th, 2008 at 2:00 am
^ Yes but you are old and in one of LEGO’s biggest markets. Most of us aren’t so lucky ;)
December 18th, 2008 at 5:53 am
sweet
December 18th, 2008 at 6:27 am
^You mean to be old? Doesn’t feel so lucky to me!
December 18th, 2008 at 7:39 am
That IS a classic door, isn’t it?
Nice.
Awesome project. Easily as charming as the real thing. :D
December 18th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Coolness. I think we had that camper when I was a kid (or at least one very much like it). The only thing I dislike about the MOC is that little gray 1×3 plate. I see the little wing on the source material he’s trying to get, but it doesn’t really work, IMO. The rest, though–the shape, the propane cannister, the vent–is perfect.
Bruce
December 18th, 2008 at 9:20 am
[...] A LEGO camping trailer [...]
December 18th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Hey these are those things they’re always destroying on Top Gear. Awesome!
December 18th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I agree somewhat about the 1×3 plate… I just couldn’t come up with any better way to express the fins on the prototype. Ideally there would be a triangular or trapezoidal piece to put there, but as it’s one of the distinguishing features of the Shasta I couldn’t just leave it out.
Thanks for all the great comments! I’ll be making the LDraw file of this soon…
December 18th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
^ You could try a 1×1 tooth plate (yes, Swoofty, I do love them).
December 18th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
The trailer looks amazing… But has anyone else noticed that one of the minifigs of the trailer resembles Chuck Norris? (…)
December 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
[...] course, thanks to The Brothers Brick for featuring the trailer a week ago, as that’s where Jonathan saw [...]
January 1st, 2009 at 7:40 am
could you fit a minifig in there?