I needed to make the front and back faces of the caravan. These are round wooden walls, where the edge defines the overall curve required by the banding, as well as the height and width of the caravan.
I needed 6'6" of headroom, as well as peak width for 'headroom' in the bedroom. I also don't want to reach 80" wide (DoT rules change at 80" wide) and keep the whole thing within a somewhat arbitrary height limit.
I ended up with a total of 78" wide and exactly 8' high (including trailer height etc).
I should have sucked it up, spent some cash and made a large round table as a template for the faces. I didn't. Instead I made a temporary framework around which I could bend some wood strips and measured my curves from that, building the walls plank by painful plank.
I ended up avoiding making a bunch of waste wood my way but it's not worth it.
Here's some pics of that process:
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