Pico

This is where CAD drawing and 3D printing really comes in handy. I need to make exhaust pipes with small "finlets" on the end. On the left side of the image is a photo of the model taken from underneath where I have drawn a pipe conforming with the curvature of the body. In the center is a copy of the pipe that I have cut the end at the proper angle and have a small "finlet" ready to apply to the pipe. I will soon 3D print the pipes. BTW, I use Sketchup 2017 for my CAD designing and an Anycubic Photon for printing.

Took a wad of Apoxie Sculpt and pressed in under the cowl, allowed it to set there. That impressed the curve of the windshield into it, then carved and sanded it, drilled out and added brass tubes for the instrument openings to make the dashboard.

I use both CAD and scanning techniques; do a search with my name for other work I've done. Actually, I'm attempting to get away from all this manual work because it's so time consuming and it's very difficult to get symmetrical.

If you find a part on Shapeways that you want but is not 1/16th, contact the maker and see if he will scale it to the size you need.

Check to see how it looks with wheels.

Thanks! It hasn't been easy and I'm certainly no Michelangelo. but it is beginning to shape up.

Second flying buttress in and more cleanup.

Making dust.

One flying buttress roughed in and rear window drilled out.

More sanding and drilled out for brass reinforcing rod for flying buttress.

Made a mold, of Apoxpy Sculpt, to form the flying buttresses over. Flying buttress is an architectural term but used in other contexts; so I'll use it here.

More sanding, beginning to find it's shape.

It's time to go to work.

Renshape time.

You will love it.

Putty time. I use Aves Apoxy Sculpt: https://avesstudio.com/shop/apoxie-sculpt/ It has a long working time and is easy to sand and takes paint very well. Slow setting time, about 6 hours.

When I build, I build to last forever.

The Thrill has a prominent beltline running rather low, and forming the tops of the wheel openings, which I'm replicating with a strip of .040" glued and pegged into the body.

Part will be easy, part will be challenging. I have a 1/24th scale slot car body of a Pegaso Z 102 from CricCrac, a slot car shop in Barcelona, Spain. The front of the Thrill is close to the Z 102, the rear will require major surgery. Here is the kit, and the slot car.

The symbol for Pegaso is a pegaso - a flying horse. Here's the logo - very stylish.

My next project - should I wish to accept it - build the wonderfully quirky Pegaso Thrill.

Been using Sketchup for 8 years now. It's an advanced hobbyist software. There are other programs, Fusion360 is very good but requires more dedication and time to learn.

Here's a really good scan. I should have done the Delage to this quality, rather than screwing around with it until it was correct. Here about all I've done is punch the louvers, added wheel wells, door and hood lines and the divider behind the passenger compartment. But first to make it absolutely symmetrical, cut it in half, erased half, copied and flipped the other half, and welded to together.

5 minute epoxy to glue it together. I am uncertain about the video projector method - never heard of it. Possible you mean using a laser beam? There is a method, that I tried 5 years ago, using a thin laser beam to define the contours of a model and photograph that many times, then software would make a mesh from the contour images. I could not make it work. I use Regard3D; http://www.regard3d.org/

I made two scans of this. The first comprises the larger polygons, making a rather low resolution mesh, not the best but I knew I was going to do plenty of body work. However the rear of the car was very poorly defined, so I made a second scan; those are the smaller polygons. I "welded" the two scans together. The orderly arranged polys are my work, because the 1/43rd scanned model was off and I needed a transition between the scans. I used the coachbuilders drawing, paced in the background, and a side view to determine the shape.