I'll see if I can get some more shots of it over the weekend.
Here is a dodgy pic I put together to give me an idea of what some external mods might look like on the truck, and to give the metal fab guys an idea when I'm trying to tell them what I want them to make for me. It's just some photos of Lightforce spotties from the web pasted, and some lines drawn, on top of the photo, a quick initial mock up of the design, not refined yet...
...plans are (it's going to take a while to be able to afford everything)...
Roof rack style (but with out the usual centre mesh basket) roof bar around the camper section, holding additional spotties on the front, rear and side work lights, long handled shovel, axe, high lift jack, maxtrax, reversing camera, etc.
Nice chunky rock sliders/side steps, integrated front and rear brush bars.
Rear bar with dual swing away spare wheel carriers and an electric winch. It will be joined to the rear brush bars and have additional rear quarter panel protection if needed.
I will mount a large vertical aluminium box on one side of the dual carriers in winter, to hold snowboards, snowshoes, hiking poles, and other wet gear such as snowchains (for all four wheels), maybe with room for a chainsaw as well (to deal with those fallen trees across the track behind my troopy in the photo) if that's not making the box too large and heavy.
I will have a diesel/electric campervan heater inside the camper, for heating the inside of the camper while parked overnight in winter. I might hook that up to the external box to provide a drying room for the wet gear, and also put a section inside the box, next to the snowboards, to dry wet snowboard jacket, pants, and boots. This would get most of the wet gear out the inside of the troopy, making it much more comfortable as a camper in winter.
Other changes planned that will affect the look of it are bigger tyres, 35x12.5 or 38x15.5 MTZ, on wider rims, 16x10 if I go with the 35's, 16x12 if it's the 38's, with 3.5" instead of the standard 4" backspace, to give a wider track.
I'll put some sort of 2" lifted coils/leaves on it, with longer travel shocks to suit the lift.
A 2" body lift will hopefully give enough clearance at full flex for the 35's with snowchains, without too much additional hassle. If I go the 38's I will be looking at coil spacers on the front and extended shackles on the rear, with extended bump stops, to give additional full flex clearance, plus some major guard chopping (tubbing?), and dropped radius arms, etc., etc., to make those work...much more expensive to go 38's compared to 35's, even the tyres are nearly twice the price.
