Image taken from www.toylander.com website
I have been looking at this ride on truck for Tegan for a while now. This is a minature eletric version of a Series Land Rover for kids. Much more robust and cool than the typicaly Barbie jeep, it's a Land Rover after all. After reading about them and looking at them and drooling over them I recenlty ordered the plans for the truck. Since the company is in the UK I am sure that like all Land Rover projects this will be interesting.
The book arrived as well as 6 sheets of plans. The plans are actually templates that can be cut out and either pasted on cardboard or to the wood to be cut itself. Currently I am resarching having a local cabinet shop cut the panels. There is some discussion on the Toylander forum (yes there is one of those too)that the paper plans are slightly distorted and suing the eletronic CAD plans yields better results. As a novice (as in never) woodworker I need all the help I can get.
Today we (we is Tegan and I of course) orderd the boxes of screws we need from the local metric shop, UK toy means metric. As soon as we hear from the cabinet shop we should know when this is little project is going to get off the ground.
The offical time line is still being ironed out but the tentative one is to have a rolling chasis by July. The build appears to be fairly straight forward and I've found lots of pictures to go by. First we build the body of the vehicle out of MDF. We then attach the axles, motors, and electrical components to the body of the vehicle and then were done. So simple...
