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Hi all well move went well new job is going well and I have negotiated a modelling area (well when we don't have guests that is) so gulp I've jumped in to try this scratch build, ive managed to find some profile drawings of the body so I've copied them onto paper and glued it to this ply wood.    I'm hoping to make a former from this as a rough starting point. I'm expecting this to be a long build, somewhere between 3 and 60 years (but that's just an approximate guess could be much longer ;) Ken's the name modeling's the game.
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That doesnt look like it will be easy, look forward to seeing this. Mark
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You've certainly taken on a project and a half with this one Ken, best of luck with it.. Look forward to seeing the progress you make....  Regards Alan
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Good Luck with it Ken.
That's just how I made my 1/8 Aston DBR1 body.
Roy.
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This is going to be epic! I was just watching a video of this car in motion today. It’s an “interesting” shape. I’m not sure if I love it, or not!
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Well first lesson learned I tried to made a cylinder head and bought card stock of the correct thickness and cut out 15 cylinder bits and 17 fins then glued them together after which they should have measured 10.25 mm well after gluing 10 of the fins together it measured 13 mm so I thought I will compress them in my vice trouble with that was it compressed the cylinder bits but not the fins and ended up looking like this     Instead of how it should look. I can only assume the extra thickness was due to the glue so I think I will have to experiment with different thicknesses. Ken's the name modeling's the game.
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If at first you don't succeed, try and try again.... Am sure you'll crack the problem in the end Ken.... Regards Alan
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This looks a challenge and a half !! Looking forward to the progress. Good luck Ken.
Malc.
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