Building a Tiny Home

...Well sort of. This is a model of a Tumbleweed Tiny House that I'm working on. It's a really exciting project for me, I get to bust out all the cool skills I don't normally use building furniture, 3D printing, laser engraving and working really small.

Naturally I started with the foundation.

 I couldn't find balsa wood in the correct scale for dimensional lumber or the size of the structural steel for the trailer (which I've made out of wood) so I milled my own.

The wheels themselves are laser cut, the wheel wells are 3D printed from a CAD model I created. I may wind up building a fleet of these things so having the ability to hit the button on a few dozen highly complicated parts makes my life a lot easier. 

The trailer is built faithfully to the new Tumbleweed trailer, and as many of the construction details as possible will go into this model. The goal is a cutaway/breakaway model that can show all the elements of construction from trailer, insulation, subfloor, framing, sheathing, utilities, electric, roofing, windows and entry... Even the kitchen sink, which I'm entertaining the idea of producing molds to stamp small aluminum sinks. To answer further questions, yes, I'm going over the top with this.

Our scale, this is one of the building boards I'm using as "full scale" plans, it includes trailer plan view and wall framing elevation, and a ruler down to one inch increments that is 20' long for layout of material.

Pile of 2x4s freshly sawn from spruce. 

The first group of studs for the long wall, match planed to identical length. 

 Lastly, an overhead view of the workspace, pile of lumber, the laser engraved builder board and some of the tools I'm using.