Introduction: Vintage Motor home Birdhouse

I hope you enjoy these plans of this time of origin camper birdhouse I successful. I decided to make it after my wife told me that one of her favorite ornaments on the European silver fir was of a vintage camper. Later on I surprised her with the birdhouse I was told IT was not going along the contend extrinsic like I had planned. Simply that it was active connected a shelf in her part where she could enjoy it instead, lol.

Supplies

1 x 6 lumber

6 inch fanlike metal flashing

PVC shrill

PVC trim

Brad nails

Ca glue

Paint

Measure 1: Coming Up With a Design

1. Drawing a design on drafting paper to size of it which clothed to be 9 1/8 inch by 5 1/8 inch

Step 2: Building Frame for Birdhouse

1. Trace designing connected 1 x 6 lumber and cut come out of the closet for birdhouse sides.

2. Turn up and drill 1 1/2 opening on combined of the sides.

3. Cut three cross pieces for between sides. One for top and two located on each end of bottom. I left a opening happening bottom for a clean knocked out. Width of birdhouse after assembling was 5 5/8 inch.

Step 3: Cutting Top From Metal Flashing

1. Gashed a strip of metal flashing 5 1/8 inch wide about 20 inches retentive. Find the exact distance by pull crossways the woods frame you made.
note: (I found it was easier to cut flashing with old scissors hold then metal snippers. Doesn't distort metal Eastern Samoa no-good)

2. Drill holes about 1 1/8 inches apart on each side of flashing to allow for nailing to frame.

3. Smash bright to wood put exploitation brad nails.

4. Use a sealer between Sir Henry Wood and flashing as you nail to hide any gaps and to weather proof interior.

Step 4: Making Some of the Accessories connected the Lathe

1. First I turned two wheels for the camping bus. These ended up beingness 1 5/8 inch wide. I found it easier to paint these as it was spinning on the lathe at low speed. If you don't have a lathe you fire buy in awkward wheels online.

2. Next I turned two cylinders as lp tanks for the front of the motor home. These ended up existence 3/4 inches wide by 1 3/4 inches tall.

3. For the fender I baseball swing a slit in a 3/4 inch full part from 2 inch PVC pipe and heated information technology until information technology fit nicely around the tire.

4. Past for the last tread on the lathe I combined a part of red resin with a screw finish washer to make a tail twinkle.

Step 5: Making the Windows and Door Trim Plus the Hitch

1. All the pare pieces were cut from premature ventricular contraction trim I bought that was 1/4 inch thick

2. I cut the door and windowpane trim behind to a 1/8 inches. So once placed on the birdhouse it was 1/4 inch open and 1/8 edge deep. I hot the trim pieces on the front window to bend dexter it to follow the veer on the camper.

3. The trim ended the door was made by cutting a angle section unsatisfactory of a 2 edge polyvinyl chloride shrill.

4. The hitch was made by gluing pieces of the 1/4 inch material together. finished hitch ended functioning being 5 inches long aside 4 inches wide.

5. The check C. W. Post was made with a 1/4 inch wood dowel cut 1 3/4 inch long.

6. The post handle was shaped from a piece of tie wire past glued into 1/4 inch dowel.

Step 6: Making the Argentiferous Wings and Bumper

1. Cut a 12 inch strip of metal flashing just over 5/8 inch wide for the following pieces.

2. Unconscious of the strip cut two pieces 3 inches long with a 45 degree along one end and elliptic connected the other end.

3. Give the metal wing proportion by flipping the piece over and using a straight edge plus a tool. Using the tool press down hard on the straight edge in this puts a lean bend in the metal that shows up along the front. Use this same proficiency on the bumper.

4. Cut the metal bumper 5 1/8 inches long with curved ends.

5. I glued a layer of slight wood on the back of the wings and abundant for keep going. Wood glossa suppressors worked good for this.

6. Drill holes on each end of abundant to secure it to birdhouse with screws.

Whole step 7: Clip to Paint

1. Foremost thing I did was to spray paint the entire birdhouse with several coats of white.

2. Next I affixed the fender on earlier laying 1/2 inch stripes outgoing on the side. HaHa (Don't Do This) lay the lines out before you glue the fender on.

3. The lines help you determine where to tape off before you spray the red-faced.

4. After several coats of red I go in reply and layout the clad lines with a posca penitentiary.

5. I determine where I wish the windows and tape off to atomiser a blue background in these areas.

6. Next draw your grid lines in the windows with a posca pen.

7. Last step is to sprayer several coats of a sealer over the entire birdhouse to protect your paint problem.

Step 8: Final Step - Assembley

1. Glue wheels on birdhouse.

2. Glue window and door frames on.

3. Secure bumper on back with two screws.

4. Glue tail lights along.

5. Attach hitch on social movement with ii screws.

6. Instal cover plate finished cleanout opening on buns.

7. Glue lp tanks connected the front of the snag.

8. Final pace is to glue the metal wings on.

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