Aeromodding Building Materials?
 

Just a quick thing I'd like to discuss. I was just wondering if fiberglass is a suitable material for building aeromods onto cars. It seems to me that it's light, strong, and easily doable, albeit messy as all heck. I think I recall Basjoos (I think that's his name, but the guy who build Aerocivic) used a thin sheet metal used on some aircraft. I'm not sure if that would be heavier or lighter than a good thick layer or two of fiberglass or not, but I know at least with fiberglass, it seems to me like it would hold up better than metals for a while in a wet environment. I am also not including Aluminum in that. Aluminum is rather expensive, and I don't think I could afford sheets and sheets of it.

Anyhow! Basically just asking if it's a good material to build with, and if so, why isn't it generally used more, as I seem to see a lot more done with chloroplast.

Why not
 

There is nothing wrong with fiberglass as a modding material. Done properly, I believe it is a more permanent material than coroplast. It is strong, light, infinitely malable, but it is messy, takes time to set up, usually requires sanding and painting to look good.

I think if you know it's going to be a permanent mod, fiberglass is great. If you are still in testing stages then cardboard, coroplast and duct tape are your friends.

Or you could do it like this....

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ect-13533.html

Jim.

Kids, remember: coroplast is a contraction of CORrugated and PLASTic; cor-o-plast... you know, because it's just like corrugated cardboard, only made of plastic. There is no chlorine, chlorophyll, chloroform, or any such stuff in it (that I'm aware of).

Another inexpensive sheet that you can use is Luan sheets...about $10 per 4'x8' sheet. Just make sure you coat/paint it with something or it will delaminate... ;)