We’ve done a lot of work glassing the large sides of the main foam pieces, sanding the edges, and adding gussets in the corners for the glass to stick to.  Now it’s time to actually finish up this side!

It almost looks like a complete thing! cool! 🙂 My favorite part about this resin is that it only takes an hour or two to cure.  So we can lay up a piece, go have a snack, and then come back and continue working.  The biggest hang up in our process so far has been the 24 hour cure time of the Gorilla Glue.  I really like using it on foam, but waiting a full day can really halt progress.

Overall I’m super pleased with how it’s turning out.  The shell fits tightly on our Colorado, but all clearances are sufficient to be able to easily slide it around.  The Colorado actually has really tall bed rails, much more so than the Tacoma and other small trucks… and a lot of fullsize trucks! That means that any camper made for “universal small truck” is going to have to sit on top of a spacer in the bed to get it to clear the rails.  This moves the entire thing up over the cab WAY too far. I saw one guy who bought one and literally built a small storage box between his truck cab and the bottom of the camper cabover just to have something there. It looked ridiculous. Ours is going to fit the truck perfectly! 🙂