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13 (above) Where did I leave off...???... Oh yeah, glassing... This time the top of the plywood roof gets the treatment...Two layers where the roof top tent doesn't cover...Those areas are likely to get walked on... (above) Twenty four ounces of resin later... (above) The RTT floor hole...

12 (above) With the underside of the roof deck reinforced with wood, fiberglass was laid out and epoxy was prepared to wet out the cloth...The Tyvek underneath is to act as a resin release barrier to keep the work table from being part of this build... (above) It took about a quart of epoxy...

11 (above) The wall panels were flipped over, the edges rounded over, sanded, then fit with fiberglass, epoxied and set aside to cure... Sound familiar...???... (above) The other wall panel was epoxied wrapped as well... (above) With the wall drying, the roof panel was glued up... 1/2" ply...

Hi SC Brian... I'll let Mike answer this one in depth, but the quick answer is sliding floor panels and fabric hinged mattress pads... Mike really thought this one through... You'll see...

10 (above) After sanding off epoxy bumps and rounding over the wood edges, two layers of 4oz. fiberglass cloth are laid onto the wall panels... Next epoxy was squeegeed on, smoothed out, brushed in and finally set aside to cure... (above) Side one, done... Flip and repeat tomorrow...

09 (above) The wall panels were trimmed to length, then the window cut-outs were made... I put the panel on top of the 'pod' to give a sense of scale... (above) The window opening also received T & G wood to foam for backing when the plexiglass gets installed... (above) Everything is...

Exactly... I have a plan for that... You'll see...

Oh yeah, I have a plan for that too... Super simple... You'll see...

Exactly...

08 (above) The wall plan changed a bit... Taking advantage of the 1x1 curb and moving the hinge as shown, will allow the wall to lay flat to the outside... Here's how it looks closed up to the inside... (above) The wall upright and vertical... (above) The wall folded over to the outside...

Hi Papaduc... Every build is an endless series of compromises... Given the multiple moving large panels, this ain't gonna be a Rolex Oyster... After the foundational structure is complete, gasketing will be looked at... I prefer to let simple gravity fed overlaps to have precedence over other...

07 (above) Sunday morning I came up with this mock-up of the sidewall details...A full 1x1 as part of the 'pod' cases, glassed and epoxied...That is the foundation for the piano hinge / sidewall... The lipped overhang adresses most of the water intrusion issues I could live with... (above)...

Pretty close to what I envisioned at the start, but I defer to Mike, it's his after all... They make double-sided drawer slides now too... Maybe next time...

Predictability... Mix it for three minutes, nothing goes wrong... Additionally, it's UV stable, not so important when it gets painted as this will, but on surfboards it does not turn to an amber color when exposed to light... Before Resin Research came onto the market, the UV stability was the...

06 (above) With the epoxy dry, the case gets a fast sanding, then the face frame and inside get the epoxy treatment... (above) A denatured alcohol thinned out coat of epoxy is brushed over the entire inside, working the horizontal surfaces then rotating the case...With the epoxy still wet...

05 That puppet show comment was funny...!!!... (above) The 'Pod' cases are built, sanded, edge routered and sanded again... After dusting things off, a layer of 4 oz. fiberglass 'e-cloth' is draped awaiting epoxy... (above) The fiberglass over wood method has me thinking of the work of...

04 (above) With a couple of other projects done, it's time to focus solely on the trailer... As mentioned above, I picked up from Mike the bulk of the remaining components for the build...In the bed, roughly in place, are the fridge and toilet...I'll be getting to those next week... (above)...

12 (above) The rear cabin electrical all goes through this battery... The charger works off of shore power, since this will almost always have a plug-in handy...That inverter ended up being a POS and was removed... The orange cord comes straight off the shore power inlet... Wedged-in foam...

11 It has been grape harvesting season in theses latitudes lately, so Jeanine's Sprinter has been busy with the over the Cascades Shuttle... Back to work... (above) The replacement contact cement canister came in to get the ceiling cork finished... (above) Ceiling sealant - Coat # 1...

03 (above) After talking with Mike, we sort of agreed that this is close to what he wants...This is an evolutionary process... Over the existing service body will be plywood "pods"...Storage compartments and a slide-out kitchen, accessible from the inside...Since the pods will be exposed to...