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Old 03-27-2015, 03:15 PM   #37 (permalink)
aardvarcus
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Continued to work on my partial shell mock up. I changed the angle (steeper) and height (shorter) of my back piece to raise the back corner to hit on an AST-2 overlay. I cut the old roof section out some more to match and got the front, back, and roof all temporarily bolted together. After some tweaking and adjusting, I threw the mock up on the truck to double check the overlay.

Ignore how bad the overlay pictures are, it was dark out and I had to really wack out the camera settings to make the shell show up against the background. Also the camera was too close to the truck so the perspective was off.

The rough shape seems to basically follow AST-2, so I am decently happy with the results. The cab to shell transition could be smoother as it looks to be a fairly abrupt 6.5 degree change.

Next steps are:
Adjusting the side window openings to be larger.
Fiberglassing these three pieces together to remove the bolts.
Making something to transition between the window sides pieces and the roof.
Getting a more distant side picture of the shell.







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