I had no skills, no facilities, no temperament, and no tools 9 weeks ago.
Now that Hiyo Silver is functional I've added a few skills to a super minor degree, a tempered temperament, but a plethora of tools
that will now gather dust.
In the end (though not there yet, it's the little trim things now) we were more MIY'ers=manage it yourself, in that a lot of our build was farmed out, e.g.
we hired the cutting of the holes for the windows and their placement, the aircon, the fan (though I did wire the aircon and fan) and we enlisted friends
with expertise in various areas to get us over the humps of basic wiring, running board installation and others.
We did meet lots of small businesses in our area we never knew existed...like the welding shop when we were working on the platform bed and City Electric
when looking for odd or weird electrical parts (though not odd at all to anyone electrically minded).
What we did get in this whole process was hands on almost every part and piece that was installed which means I know where my shunt is for the batter monitor, I
know where the breakers are for all the batteries, the solar panel, and so on.
The best part of the process was going through the mental process of self inspection of actual need/desire and intended use and applying this to a Sketchup model
before actually beginning the various installs---the result of this was a campervan conversion with what we wanted, not what a manufacture thinks we want.