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Old 12-09-2009, 12:58 PM   #84 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by JackMcCornack View Post
For me, models are ridiculously easy to make. The Foam Ranger (my car sized 3 axis CNC low density foam router) was ridiculously hard to make--took me a few years--but now that I've got it I can make an accurate scale model in styrofoam the day after I'm done concocting the Rhino files.
A little aside: if you have this (I'm so jealous!), why can't you easily do almost any body shape as fiberglass over foam? I don't know the cost of materials, but if it works for experimental aircraft, why not cars? The more so as you'd basically be doing an aeroshell over a donor chassis, or tube frame with donor running gear?
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