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Gave myself quite a challenge in making this part as it is a 4 sided section that had to have the 3 layers of mat fed in and laid up through a slot in one side of the part. It was touch and go far a while as the loose edges of the layup were always in the way but I finally managed to get them to...

Indeed, looking excellent Terry. It's nice when its suddenly (almost) one colour.:thumbsup: This is the finished car right, you not going to do moulds? Cheers Fred W B

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Suppose this thread is a good enough excuse to post these detail pictures I took at GFOS 2005? Cheers Fred w B

Thanks Michel I've now got the tail almost completely demoulded, I just need to make the panel that fits in this gap in front of the carb trumpets before I can turn it over Cheers Fred W B

Thanks Mic. I do intend to paint eventually but I'm thinking I might as well get the gell coat as good as I can so it looks decent while I am shaking the car down. Made some more progress, and apologies if I'm going into lengthy detail on this, but I've now got the nostril inserts bonded in...

Might it be descended from this project? http://forum.savarturbo.se/viewtopic.php?t=21458 Regards Fred W B

That is just fantastic! Did you consider painting it red, with gold wheels and white exhausts? Cheers Fred W B

I've now done the front faces of the clip and currently I'm busy with making the "nostril" inserts. Cheers Fred W B

Thanks for the kind comments guys Plain general purpose polyester resin I've read about it, but have no experience with it. These being the first parts I've ever made in fiberglass I thought I would stick with the simple approach This time of year it is usually between 15 and 25 deg C, maybe...

Hi Chris Thanks for your comment Re building in sections, it guess it does make the actual layup easier but it's a real pain doing the masking and cutting all the matt sections. As for the taper, I just thumb sucked a 15 mm overlap on each of the three layers, so that equals 45 mm. Taking...

and here you see the prepared matt to make that top edge join That was laid up yesterday. Cheers Fred W B

This weekend I had to position the mould almost vertically to make it possible to reach all of the top edge of the tail to top section join area.

Then I dressed the edges of the part sections and bolted the 6 outer pieces of the mould together. The next step was to glass over the join between the sides and the top section. Again the joining pieces of matt were staggered in width to give an even thickness across the join. The dark marks in...

Then the main top surface I masked the 2 layers of gell edges and staggered the edges of the 3 layers of matt to enable me to blend in the joining sections

Then I laid up the rear section

Thanks Pete In new news I've made some progress on the tail section. Because of the size of the part, difficulty of access and as I work mostly on my own I have to make the part in sections. I laid up the side sections first I made this tool to help work the matt into the tight corners...

Fantastic! Please post a picture once you have the tail back on. Cheers Fred W B

So no comment on Monaco then? Looked like every single one of them was just stroking it round to keep the tyres together to the end? Cheers Fred W B

I got these when I visited the Prototype Museum in Hamburg : : PROTOTYP - PERSONEN. KRAFT. WAGEN. : : Hamburg is not so far from you in global terms? Cheers Fred W B