Dormobile based on estate/station wagon

[Go4fun]

Great idea.
Its the VW T3 camper van that the interior will be based on using plasticard and the Dormobile canopy made to measure.
The Italeri Rolls Royce Phantom II or the Minicraft RR Silver Cloud Phantom Squire. There is no Daimler DS420,but a reworked grill might work.
The American muscle cars are large enough.

Saw the darnedest thing yesterday.
A late 1960s Oldsmobile Station Wagon (Estate?) cut open so a 'Slide In Camper' for a pick-up truck (Ute?) could be slid into the back and made part of it.
Not a 'Topper Cover' but a camper!
I would have pictures but (A) I didn't have my camera with me, and (B) I don't take pictures at the 70 MPH plus that would have been required to keep up with this mostrosity.

[Hobbes]

You can get those for some cars too:

[McColm]

You can get those for some cars too:

Its ironic I had that kit in 1/25 and came with the wedge to convert a car into a pickup truck/Ute.
I'll look out for a Saab donor car.
There are quite a few of those mobile units around, some detach and have feet, porch and sliding doors. The upper deck supports a single bunk. Whereas the interior is just like a campervan or caravan.
Thanks for the photo.

[McColm]

The scope for the demountable camper ranges from the Ute/pickup truck to the hatchback. I'm sure a two or four door salon car could also be used.
I might Whiff a trike , always wanted to build one. Perhaps Orange County Choppers or another stylist company will have built some real world version.
BBC Top Gear did something similar- Lotus, LandRover and a Citroen.
I wonder if you could use a tank as a donor vehicle? I'm sure Revell do them in 1/24 or 1/25 scale.
I had a go at building a Mack truck with a demountable camper and the Revell Double Decker Routemaster is worth a punt.
I've seen the American yellow school bus in plastic, that would make a great 'woodie'. Which reminds me a writer converted one into his home. Looked like a wooden log cabin on wheels.

Maybe a cargo plane without the wings, engines and vertical tail. Or a Short Sunderland.
A canal barge? Or railway carrige-O gauge.