Van crew - assemble

[paulshane]

Packed and offf shortly 🙂

[paulshane]

All set up 🙂 (got here ages ago but faffing with solar panels 🙂 )

[blutarsky]

Just taken delivery of a double seat / rock n roll bed from East Coast camper conversions. I will need to get it fitted this weekend and next as we are off to Leopalooza on the 21st and to France for a fortnight on the 1st of august. I got dropped off on the drive on a pallet as I was about to leave home so will get it unwrapped into the van this afternoon. Pics to follow. 

[Skip997]

7 hours ago, blutarsky said:

Just taken delivery of a double seat / rock n roll bed from East Coast camper conversions. I will need to get it fitted this weekend and next as we are off to Leopalooza on the 21st and to France for a fortnight on the 1st of august. I got dropped off on the drive on a pallet as I was about to leave home so will get it unwrapped into the van this afternoon. Pics to follow. 

Just sorted myself a DJ slot. Not sure what venue or day.

[blutarsky]

The new double seat went in yesterday, and so did the driver side seat swivel. Raised floor being built today and a swivel for the double bench seat on order. 

[blutarsky]

[blutarsky]

I raised the floor yesterday, so the bed is now operational! 
 

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

On 5/16/2023 at 9:55 AM, Twiggy553 said:

I’ve been messing about with 18mm ply to create these lovely contoured mountainscapes. The one pictured is an overhead panel that covers some ugly electrical conduit in the van. It’s actually a map of the five valleys (and surrounding mountains) that come together at Briançon in the Haute Alps

i’ve been toying with the idea of making a table top using this method (with clear resin to make it a flat surface)

Very cool.  How did you do that?

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

6 hours ago, blutarsky said:

I raised the floor yesterday, so the bed is now operational! 
 

What van do you have?

[blutarsky]

1 minute ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:

What van do you have?

Fiat Ducato, H2L4

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

On 7/9/2023 at 7:05 AM, blutarsky said:

The new double seat went in yesterday, and so did the driver side seat swivel. Raised floor being built today and a swivel for the double bench seat on order. 

 

 

I like the extending roof. Looks like the top floor of a house, complete with guttering, double glazing and white rendered outside wall finish etc!

[blutarsky]

27 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I like the extending roof. Looks like the top floor of a house, complete with guttering, double glazing and white rendered outside wall finish etc!

Yeah, it's a pop top. Two double bedrooms and an en suite up there. 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

2 minutes ago, blutarsky said:

Yeah, it's a pop top. Two double bedrooms and an en suite up there. 

Yeah, thought it would be something like that - even if it is a little de rigueur for my liking. Can't see a staircase though. I can only think that you have yet to install a fireman's / woman's / they's / it's pole within the van?

[blutarsky]

4 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Yeah, thought it would be something like that - even if it is a little de rigueur for my liking. Can't see a staircase though. I can only think that you have yet to install a fireman's / woman's / they's / it's pole within the van?

There's a lift - you sit on the loo and pressing the flush fires you up there. 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, blutarsky said:

you sit on the loo and pressing the flush fires you up there. 

That's because the loo is powered by the bullshit we are talking. It is powerful stuff!

[Skip997]

So I've been sanding and oiling the ply panel walls in my van, using Danish oil

It's berserk, may never need to take mushrooms again.

 

 

[clarkete]

1 hour ago, Skip997 said:

So I've been sanding and oiling the ply panel walls in my van, using Danish oil

It's berserk, may never need to take mushrooms again.

 

 

The Necronomicon

https://evildead.fandom.com/wiki/Necronomicon_Ex-Mortis

[Skip997]

[stuie]

13 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

 

fit 😁

[balti-pie]

i wanna see what its like inside now! 

[Skip997]

4 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

i wanna see what its like inside now! 

I’ll give it a tidy and post a few pics

[Skip997]

[balti-pie]

Thats magnificent! the storage is great - and i love the little spy window from the bed to the driving seats. I'd struggle with the length of the bed, but only cos i'm tall. The little stove should keep it effortlessly toasty when its cold.

Great layout, thanks for satisfying my nosiness! 👍 That'd be a cosy little oasis away from the SE corner madness! 

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, balti-pie said:

Thats magnificent! the storage is great - and i love the little spy window from the bed to the driving seats. I'd struggle with the length of the bed, but only cos i'm tall. The little stove should keep it effortlessly toasty when its cold.

Great layout, thanks for satisfying my nosiness! 👍 That'd be a cosy little oasis away from the SE corner madness! 

Yea I’m very happy with how it’s turned out 

[paulshane]

I wheeled by trusty caravan out of it's slumber last week too 🙂

 

 

 

 

seems to have wintered OK, not damp and no mice 🙂 

 

Some more repairs needed to one of the panels, which is coming away from the hinges - the frame for each panel is cheap wood that has just dry rotted away, I suspect when this was built circa 1982, nobody expected people like me to still be using it 40+ years later 🙂