22-01-2021, 10:55 PM
Another few days of activity between customers' projects.
The body has been clad with 1.5mm ply and the corners infilled. On a factory fabric saloon the infilled areas would be aluminium panels but as I have no experience making compound curvature metalwork I'm using a modern solution; medium density PU foam. It's the material you sometimes see being used for cad-machining prototype body-shells but can be shaped with hand tools and glued with wood glue.
Inside I've made the blank dash and door cappings, adding an inlay detail as was often used by cabinet makers and coachbuilders.
The capping strip runs right around the rear shelf. Final adjustments and instrument fitting will happen after it comes back from the trimmer, then the wood pieces will be stained and finished.
I seem to have spent an extraordinary amount of time on little details and fittings. All important but progress feels very slow compared to ash framing! I've been spraying odd little components that the trimmer will want to fit permanently. Trim panels, door slam panels, boot locks, ali gutters, door-shut cappings etc are also complete.
Next week, fitting the rad shell and completing the front wing brackets
The body has been clad with 1.5mm ply and the corners infilled. On a factory fabric saloon the infilled areas would be aluminium panels but as I have no experience making compound curvature metalwork I'm using a modern solution; medium density PU foam. It's the material you sometimes see being used for cad-machining prototype body-shells but can be shaped with hand tools and glued with wood glue.
Inside I've made the blank dash and door cappings, adding an inlay detail as was often used by cabinet makers and coachbuilders.
The capping strip runs right around the rear shelf. Final adjustments and instrument fitting will happen after it comes back from the trimmer, then the wood pieces will be stained and finished.
I seem to have spent an extraordinary amount of time on little details and fittings. All important but progress feels very slow compared to ash framing! I've been spraying odd little components that the trimmer will want to fit permanently. Trim panels, door slam panels, boot locks, ali gutters, door-shut cappings etc are also complete.
Next week, fitting the rad shell and completing the front wing brackets