Hello Everyone, I havent posted anything in some time as my job keeps me very busy so work on my project has been painfully slow. I have made some progress though and wanted to share some pictures and get peoples input on the best way to proceed.
I designed a sports racer on Rhino3D and had got to the point where it was time to start building the body. So I made full size drawings for templates on a big printer from my cad files. I jig sawed out the templates from 1/8th inch hardboard and arranged the on a 1/2 inch mdf backbone, like an egg crate. Inbetween i filled the gaps with styrofoam which made for a very solid base. Now I'm in the process of finishing the plug to make fiberglass molds from. Therein lies the problem. My original plan was to coat the foam with 2 part epoxy resin then cover the epoxy with bondo to make a hard surface i could sand to a fine finish. Problem is the bondo does not readily stick to the resin surface. I need to build the surface up about another inch across the whole body but I'm not sure which way to go now.
Was thinking about using plaster. Any ideas???? Thanks for reading.
Having trouble uploading all my pictures but heres a few of them.
I designed a sports racer on Rhino3D and had got to the point where it was time to start building the body. So I made full size drawings for templates on a big printer from my cad files. I jig sawed out the templates from 1/8th inch hardboard and arranged the on a 1/2 inch mdf backbone, like an egg crate. Inbetween i filled the gaps with styrofoam which made for a very solid base. Now I'm in the process of finishing the plug to make fiberglass molds from. Therein lies the problem. My original plan was to coat the foam with 2 part epoxy resin then cover the epoxy with bondo to make a hard surface i could sand to a fine finish. Problem is the bondo does not readily stick to the resin surface. I need to build the surface up about another inch across the whole body but I'm not sure which way to go now.
Was thinking about using plaster. Any ideas???? Thanks for reading.
Having trouble uploading all my pictures but heres a few of them.
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