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That looks great, I hope you have miles of fun in your new truck - I wish I was close to being at the same stage as you.

They look great - definitely a work of art and they should be a deterrent for a smash and grab theft. I would have gone with very visible locks though - so that it is obvious to the would be thief that they can't open the door by smashing the window. I think these area great idea I...

Sorry, I made everything on the truck - did not think to make any drawings as I made a full scale template of the front of the camper box and drew everything on that. First thing you have to do is make your reference bend - make a 90 degree bend and carefully mark where the bend starts in...

To keep down the weight, the Jarrah floor consists of a 4mm thick strip of Jarrah glued onto 4mm lightweight hoop pine ply. The section of floor weights around 7kg only. The arms are leather straps, the overall quality of the chairs is fantastic, we bought them direct from a manufacturer in...

The ceiling has worked out great - just gives that extra bit of headroom and looks good. I had to clean out the back completely, and sand the floor in preparation for the real Jarrah floor panel The floor arrived today, along with a whole load of panels for the cabinets etc. We did a...

The long weekend has given me an opportunity to do some more work on the truck, to date it has been rather slow going since I went back to work, with most of the work being small jobs I can finish in an evening or weekend. This being a four day long weekend I got time to do a bit more. I...

That's the one I tired, the main thing was it would flatten the inside of the pipe without making a smooth bend. I've seen it work on the right type of pipe, very heavy wall and low strength. I used a thin walled high strength pipe to cut down the weight a bit.

Which pipe bender did you buy - I got a JD2 model 32 bender - I tried with the simple hydraulic ones which were 1/10th the price of the JD2, and it could not bend the pipe neatly.

The rear mounts on the back of the cab have two rivnuts and two holes through the double skin part. The B pillar can have holes in them, the A pillars - the ones either side of the windscreen are not supposed to have holes drilled in them according to the body builder guide. I can't show the...

Time for another update - this week I've been concentrating on the water system, the mudguards and the the bullbar. First up the mud guard - I had to make something that would be able to take a tyre blowing out and the tread flapping around and not taking out the brake booster. I made a...

Check out the flex in this Unimog - articulation between cab and camper scales off at around 400mm. We are currently making the "sock" for the seal between the cab and camper, and need to cater for the 400mm of differential movement. Regarding the pivoting mount - standard MB Unimog - 3 point...

Thanks for the explanation - looks like a good truck for your needs. I can understand completely about spending more time thinking about how to do things than actually doing them. In the beginning, I would make things, then end up changing or even re-doing thing completely because how it...

Hi canals, would love to see more photos, but need a bit more explanation of what we are looking at - is that s single 400lt fuels tank, or do you have two 200lt tanks. Are you going to run single tyres or duals at the back? Is this truck 4wd or 2wd.

Great video - wish I had made the effort to video my build up. Thanks for sharing.

This has to be one of the classic Unimog photos - absolutely brilliant.

Thanks for sharing the video - makes me what to drive my Mog even more. YOu did a great job on the truck in suh a short time, hopefully my first trip goes as well as your has.

I only wish I was finished, so I can be out doing what it is supposed to do instead of being a garage ornament :)

More fabrication and reassembly. More progress this week - I fitted all the latches and hinges to the bonnet. The bonnet and grill can be removed easily but all the fittings are in place. I also worked on the rear storage compartments. The lower section is likely to get a bit of a...

The chassis on my Unimog is very flexible, and the mounting point system has to match - the jacking up one of the rear wheels was enough to flex the chassis quite a bit as shown in this photo. My camper box is on the OEM 4 point bed - the centre mount is rubber mounted to the cross member...

Another update with a major milestone being reached. First the truck cab got resprayed - it was clear that the cab was not up to the same standard as the camper box, door and bonnet. So after a quick sand down, new paint was applied. with the whole truck painted, I got to work on the cab...