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Originally Posted by ghostwalker
making a fiberglas part by creating a mold from an original part is called splashing. ... There's a couple of decent books of making fiberglas car parts (I have one by John A. Willis), if you google chavants modeling clay they have some videos on fiberglas molding (you can substitute wood, bondo, plaster for clay you just have to use rougher tools like sanders. Probably the best book I've ever seen on mold making is thurston james's "the prop builders molding and casting handbook." .... I've seen some pretty rough looking wheel arch covers on this site (sorry guys) that would probably look nice if they were done in glas. Making nice curves ,I believe, is much easier in it then in most other materials.
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These books and videos I'll have to look up. Over the next few warm months, I hope to use my break time when not working to learn enough to make rear wheel skirts and an expanding foam/fiberglass grille block--both of which I hope will be near-factory in appearance. One quickie question out of impatient curiosity: the wheel covers would need a diff method because there s no part to mold from. Do I make a mold or shape it by hand and sand it? I guess the second one, eh? If you don't have time to answer, that's cool, you've given us a lot to look up and figure-out already. Thanks again.