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Old 01-06-2016, 08:17 PM   #216 (permalink)
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i think that no one liked the nose
I never said that. I'm glad you gave up on that marbelized foam thing. Fiberglass molds need a high surface finish.

Leave it to Frank Lee to say "Everything you do is wrong!" The angled edges above the suspension might need a little eyebrow. The objections are to the edges across the flow. Look for the solutions where trailer owners have put half-round on their boxes.

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Well, haven't worked with coroplast before, and i didn't even thought on it.
But i'm interested to know how to work with it if is useful for other parts of the car.
Coroplast is, in the words of Lt. Niedermeyer, "weak and worthless".*

Use prefinished sheet material (galvanizing counts), save hours compared to finishing a raw fiberglass part. Here are solutions to seaming along and across radii. Curved edges result in pseudo-compound curved surfaces.



Most builder run the gores lengthwise, the 1947 Roswell goes against the grain.






*Coroplast with welding rod slipped into the flutes might work.
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