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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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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So much for the double feature.
It’s amazing what he can do when he’s not drumming for Black Sabbath. ;)
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….
^ Yes but you are old and in one of LEGO’s biggest markets. Most of us aren’t so lucky ;)
sweet
^You mean to be old? Doesn’t feel so lucky to me!
That IS a classic door, isn’t it?
Nice.
Awesome project. Easily as charming as the real thing. :D
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
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Hey these are those things they’re always destroying on Top Gear. Awesome!
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…
^ You could try a 1×1 tooth plate (yes, Swoofty, I do love them).
The trailer looks amazing… But has anyone else noticed that one of the minifigs of the trailer resembles Chuck Norris? (…)
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could you fit a minifig in there?