Marvel's Hydra coupe 1/12 scale full scratch build

[Codi]

Exquisite Francois.  cheers, tim

[BDSchindler]

Question about the leather you're using.  Are you thinning the thickness of the leather before adhering it to the seats?  I would assume so given you are able to work it into the pleats of the cushion but man...that must be paper thin on the backside of the leather.

Fantastic work, by the way...loving what you are doing and very inspiring.

[François]

Thank you BDSchindler,

No, I did not thin it.  It's thicker than the red leather I used on the Bentley,  .03" vs .022" but the seats on the hydra are a little bigger and I've learned a bit since the bentley so modeled the seats accordingly. I accentuated the pleats and added a few features to aid the 'tucking in' of the leather. 

[François]

I'm slowly buffing every body pieces, it kinda nerve racking. One slip and I could ruin the part. So far, I've done both hood panels, both rear wheel covers and one fender. No slip up so far. I also installed the foot ladder and rubber mat on the one fender. And prepared the 4 rear light lenses.

[François]

I started to dress up the body. There are many parts to attach, the rear light lenses,  the wiring, the blue cube thingy,  the rear seat, doors and door handles, trunk lid with handles, and list goes on. Here's what been done so far.

Rear light lenses 

Real light wiring 

Bleu cube thingy 

Rear seat

Test fit of antenna

I also black out the door skills lettering

 

and installed the handles on the rear wheels covers 

Hood handles

 

Edited June 1 by François

[François]

I am now at the last stage of this build (the car portion), so pretty much everything I do is final. 

Here's what's been done today. 

Installation of front body and hood, making sure fits are nice and hoods open and close freely. 

Installation of door sills

Installation of door handles.  Quick note about the handles.  I 3d printed 6 handles,  2 per door and 2 for the trunk lid.  They looked very nice but the chrome dulled right away during Installation.  So I ended up make new once out of an aluminium rod. Once filed, curved and polished,  they look better then the printed ones. 

Dulled printed handle 

Aluminium handle 

Inside handle and door catch 

Installed the doors on the body 

Installed the 4 gages above the dashboard 

And took a few general pictures cause it looks so nice!!

I also took proper pictures of the car without body parts on it.  Here's a link to the album.

Hydra coupe final gallery

[BK9300]

Once you have this one wrapped up, and given how well this and your two previous builds turned out, you must surely be confident there isn’t anything you couldn’t model!  Beautiful work, François

[François]

Thanks Bk9300, my confidence in what I'm able to do is effectively pretty high. I just repaired my printer and am testing it. Let's just say that my confidence in the printer is not as high. 

[Mattilacken]

Looking epic! Great work from start to finnish!

[Belugawrx]

Incredible stuff here Francois, Really looking excellent !

[François]

Thank you everyone !

Both side tool boxes are complete and ready to be installed.  I redid the clear on the trunk lid, there was a spot where I sanded thru the clear  and the paint, all the way to the darker primer. Now it ok. I just need to fabricate both lock handles and the lid will be ready for installation. 

and the trunk lid 

[François]

Yesterday,  my son asked me if I could print a large dragon for him and his budys for their dungeon and dragon game. He gave me the file and after about 7hrs of printing time,  I had a complete and highly detailed dragon. This gave me the idea that I could maybe find a printable file of the red skull caracter that could be set in the display case. After about 5 minutes of search, I found a file for 5$. I had to scale it down a bit, the actor is 6ft 2in so I scaled it down by 33%. It came out great ! Just need to paint it.

Here's the dragon

And here's red skull

[François]

The red skull figurine holds a cube in is right hand behind is back.  It's the same cube that I but in the thingy in the trunk.  I thought it would be fun to have it glow by Inserting a pico led in it. So I printed the hand in clear resin, made an access hole from the wrist to the cube and inserted the led inside. I painted the glove black and the cube a translucide bleu. The wires go up the arm, into the torso, down the right leg and out under the right foot. Looks kinda neat.

Here's a picture of what I think is  CG image of the back side of the figurine with the glowing cube. 

Here's mine

[BK9300]

Very cool!

[François]

I'm done with the figurine.  It's my first try at something like this but I think it came out good.

[Unatural]

That's awesome! Perfect touch to go along with the car.

[Bainford]

The excellence continues. The figure looks awesome, and the illuminated cube is a great touch.

[François]

Well, the car itself is almost done. Just need to install the exhaust pipes to conclude this portion of this project. I've started the design of the control panel where the red skull figurine will be. I couldn't find a 3d modeled red skull that could be opened in Inventor (the model I used to print is a mesh model so to heavy and complicated to use) but I found another model that will do the job for now. And I'm slowly modeling the display case.  Here are a few pictures of the almost completed car. I'll take proper pictures shortly. 

The control panel with the faux red skull 

And the display so far

[Unatural]

I love the display. Are you going to have a mirror in the base of it to show off the bottom of the car?

[François]

Yes, the idea I have is to sit the model on the yellow rack on a sheet of glass and to install a mirror at an angle under the glass.  I think that the angled mirror will give a better view.  I need to test this before because tge angle would be small.

[chris chabre]

Absolutely amazing build.

[Mattilacken]

Great work! And now when i read that you model in Inventor I got even more impressed. I belive body work are hard to do in inventor. but it might just be me that havent been doing those kind of models in Inventor. If you would't mind i would love to se a file for the fender for example to se how you have went about making the complex curves. 

[François]

Thank you everyone. 

Mattilacken, inventor is effectively not very well suited for these kind of shapes. I've been using it for many many years to design machines, so manly squarish parts. The body on this project proved to be very challenging and quite frankly,  I had my doughts at first.  Here's s print screen wirh tge left side bar showing the steps I used to model the basic fender. Many more steps were needed to properly define the mating edge between the fender and body but it gives you and idea. 

[Mattilacken]

3 hours ago, François said:

Mattilacken, inventor is effectively not very well suited for these kind of shapes. I've been using it for many many years to design machines, so manly squarish parts. The body on this project proved to be very challenging and quite frankly,  I had my doughts at first.  Here's s print screen wirh tge left side bar showing the steps I used to model the basic fender. Many more steps were needed to properly define the mating edge between the fender and body but it gives you and idea. 

I agree, it’s made more for steel machinery engineering like most of the rest of the car. But bodywork is an other cup of tea. Neat to see your steps. I wonder if a countur sweep with angle would have worked as a basic shape.. shall try tomorrow. Thanks for sharing gave me some ideas! 

[François]

Well, it is done. Took me 11 months but it is done.

 

And a reminder of the goal

To view the finished album

Hydra coupe final gallery