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Pico

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  1. Lookin' bad in black.
  2. First coat black.
  3. Black paint time.
  4. Recovery.
  5. Krylon.
  6. Well, darnit.
  7. This makes me nervous.
  8. Paint time!
  9. Chassis is 3/8" cabinetmakers plywood. It's not seen so I spend as little time as possible on it.
  10. You could have done it, but you have tiny paws. Molotow.
  11. Exhaust pipes, wire wheels and those monster sized knock offs are out of the printer and ready for paint.
  12. Picasso? Picaso? What you boys been smoking?
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Check to see how it looks with wheels.
  18. Thanks! It hasn't been easy and I'm certainly no Michelangelo. but it is beginning to shape up.
  19. Second flying buttress in and more cleanup.
  20. Making dust.
  21. One flying buttress roughed in and rear window drilled out.
  22. More sanding and drilled out for brass reinforcing rod for flying buttress.
  23. 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.
  24. More sanding, beginning to find it's shape.
  25. It's time to go to work.
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