MPC Dodge Deora

[patw]

[Bert]

Cool surf wagon Pat. Did you paint the camper or is that a decal?

[patw]

Hi Bert, No the kit comes in yellow plastic with a coat of chrome sparkle to give it a wet finish. The camper shell has my alloy/rivet decal, plus one for the mild steel door going rusty.
The cab is nearly done I sourced some pedals that the kit doesn't supply..................


The rear area bed/seat plus one coat of wood varnish plus a template for the flooring...........


As the interior is wood I steered clear of woodgrain decal and am adding diamond plate flooring, here painted in a chrome finish...........

[patw]

Todays work was to: fit the pedals, fit the floor, another coat of varnish on the wood and decorate the inside of the camper shell.






Just a few more decal strips to do in the corners.

[TooOld]

I like it !

[patw]

Hi Bob, thanks for your

[patw]

today build and fit slant 6 engine................


Test fit space around the engine with the body on.................

[rocketeer]

Pat, on a Slant Six the intake manifold is horizontal. Now, nobody's gonna see it when your model is completed except you and God, but i have first-hand knowledge that God is a bit finicky about the details on Slant Sixes

PS: The rivetted look on the canopy looks great.

[patw]

Thanks for your info rocketeer, but the plans are not exactly clear, and as we don't have this engine over here in the UK, I wouldn't have known, but it's in now and as you say there's only three of us that know! But I shall know for next time.

[rocketeer]

[patw]

A few more pics to finish this build....................
The extended exhaust..........


The exhaust now finishing in the middle infront of the back axle.............



I scanned the Deora logo from the box and printed a few decals of various sizes..............



The surfboard that I made for this build showing a new decal...............



My major mistake was chroming the windscreen surround, but didn't remove it as the surround is thin and fragile..... I also decalled the drop down door and fitted the headlight/grille unit........



All done , the chassis with the body attached.


Completed build pictures later on the next thread.

[Dennis M]

Great job Pat.

[Hemi]

I LOVE IT!!!!! I'd nearly kill to get the decals you used on that camper (I too have a Deora that I'm doing VERY similarly), BUT mine is gonna be stock height 4x4, with a trailer made from 2 Deora campers, as well as a third "camper" on the back of the actual truck..... and to add to that I LOVE the Patch-work steel on the camper as you added it!

KILLER work man, KILLER!!!!

[patw]

Thanks guys, Hemi I look forward to seeing your Deora!

[Hemi]

-I'm still "gathering" parts for what I have planned on my Deora "Caravan Camper" build.... BUT I'll be sure to point it out when I start! (I am NOT using a Slant 6 in mine for the engine!) I'm making a master copy Aussie Hemi-6 to power it! I'll mold the engine, and then use one of the molded versions for power! -Plus, I'm still designing it in my head on how I want to do things on it....

[patw]

Superb Hemi, keep thinking how it should be, use plenty of imagination! Your designing in your head, I wake up at 4am and write things down so I don't forget! I like weird and wacky as possible, then I try and build it! My next build (already started) is an AMT Surf Woody, but................I've just found some pics of the Lindberg/Hawk Wild Woodie,(very,very rare) now that's different, so why don't I use what I see and get a mix of the two?

[Hemi]

Ohhh believe me Pat,
I'll be at this one awhile! See, I have 2 of the Deora kits. one I'm doing a super low rider (bring it down to meet mother earth, as it is, and then custom paint it, as the "Deora" in custom form, (as if it wasn't, already a "custom truck"). Then I'm painting the body Tropical Turquoise to boot, wit the "silverish" stock decals that go down the center body line! -NO camper on that one! The engine in my low-rider Deora, is a fully chromed Supercharged 392 Hemi! I also plan to move things around in the interior, the "Dog House" (part that covers the engine inside the cab) is gonna shift, and be slightly wider, made of clear glass.... (to be able to "see" the engine)

I have part of this build started, I also have a "thread" on that build, typed out in MS Notepad, I probably ought to post it for all to see the work on that one!

THEN to top that off, I have that second Deora! That one isn't started yet, and that one has gotten all the extra Deora campers I could pick up, as the truck, itself will be hauling one, and then that truck will be made a stock height 4x4 to pull a tag-a-long camper, made from a couple of the same "campers" that would sit on the Deora's bed, that I'm gonna scratch-bash into a tag-a-long camper trailer for the Deora to pull! This one, I have yet to begin at all besides collect parts for it (I'd like to cough up one more Deora camper top!) -As 3 of those campers make a decently "long" camper trailer for it to pull on a single axle!

[patw]

Wow Hemi, that's some build, two of them. I've already started looking at the first build on here, s'looking good!

[Hemi]

Thanks Pat! Yeah, I'ma Mopar guy and the Deora is just one of those trucks thats "different" so. and I thought I'd further customize one and then make a camper set-up pulling a tag-a-long camper too would look GREAT, and be something even more "different".....

[patw]

Looking forward to seeing it complete Hemi!

[barten]

Wow Pat! KIller build! so cooL!!!!!!

[patw]

Cheers barten!