full-size template

[sgtlethargic]

How DID you scale up the streamlining template to make your aero cap, boat tail, etc?

[JethroBodine]

Post 1 of http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post263738 has an updated procedure that I used( including math and measurements on how I did it. Actual measurements should be scalable to whatever your height is.

Basically, measure the height of the vehicle, figure out the 10% locations, start building the tail to get close to the height/angle at that percentage, adjust final fit once the structure is in place. I have a dial angle finder that I use to check against the floor of the shop.

Hope this helps.

[Piwoslaw]

Trigonometry. Nothing more advanced than what I had in highschool.

[aerohead]

The original 'Template' was drawn on 11" X 17" paper with the 'ground plane' and a horizontal datum projecting rearward from the 'Max. Camber' point.
By knowing the actual ballasted height of a vehicle,reasonably accurate dimensions can be measured (in scale) at any point on the drawing,producing the necessary vectors for bulkheads,formers and stringers which define the new form.
Photo-enlargements can be stitched together with invisible tape to add 'resolution.'
A full-scale 'french-curve' of 1" Schedule-40 PVC pipe can be laid over the bulkhead stations to provide vectors for any longitudinal point along the 'Template.'
Long ago,cars were developed from full-scale blueprints.You'll see this in Martin Scorsese's movie 'Tucker The man and His Machine,' and the depiction of Alex Tremulis' blueprints.
Low tech will work when all else fails.

[skyking]

with irfanview, my printer, and a scale.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...dge-22354.html

[Sven7]

Print it out to 10% of your vehicle height, draw a 1cm grid over it, then draw a 10cm grid on a piece of plywood and trace it.

For instance, I am doing a scale model for a three wheeler project. The real car will be 3200mm long so I printed out a profile view 320mm long to begin making the model. It's a really simple technique which I reversed from full size in Photoshop to scale size in real life.