I understand your apprehension.
----------Thanks..and your Road-Foamie and beautiful behemoth in the TD community!!
The foam makes a great composite panel.
1----I'm glad to hear that and have read it a number of times here..but always good to hear it again!
I sandwiched my foam between fiberglass on the exterior (many have used canvas but I went with 'glass becuz the wife didn't like the textured look of the canvas) and 5 mm lauan plywood on the inside.
2------So, structurally Canvas and T2 is just as strong as fiberglass and epoxy-resin...and it is just an aesthetic preference?
3------Also, how quickly did you do the outer FG skin in relation to the luan skin on the inside? Was there any worry of shrinkage and warping...or not true with FG?
People have talked about it's resistance to tree branches, bears, sledgehammers and the like and I think my Road Foamie will fare as well as any other build.
4----EXCELLENT !!!!! "Bears"?? Hope we don't need to test that one too often!
For my interior support, (don't think stick built), I built a set of cabinets up front and a set of cabinets 2/3rds of the way back. The cabinets serve as bulkheads and provide much of the needed support and the rear bulkhead separates sleeping quarters from the rear galley.
5-----Not sure what you mean by "don't think stick built"?? Do you mean don't go too thin on any wood skeleton/framing? AND THANK YOU..now I get why bulkheads are there (structural soundness) aside from making a galley. Thank you! I almost wasn't going to do any bulkheading....
(I overbuilt those just in case I ever have to park it outside in our Sierra Nevada winters with our legendary snowfalls) but even then I only used 1 x 3's as support.
6-------So, even just a 1x3 spar is ok for heavy snow loads so if I don't plan to be heavy snow loads...are 1x2's of 1x1's OK for spars????
Just read my build log and others in the foamie thread and I think you'll be a convert too!!!
7------I think I already am a convert...even with my reticence I already have about 300lbs of trailer and the wood and camper will add to that and I can only tow 1000lbs and want to keep the "dry weight" hopefully limited to ~800lbs so my gear and amenities won't go beyond my limit! And, I will go back and read your thread again...Thanks!
ALSO, can you tell I was practicing using the "quote" function? I'm such a newb here!
_John