Custom bodywork - progress?

[LotusNova]

Hi folks,

I'm currently making some panels from scratch (using extruded polystyrene for the bucks). If anyone else is actively doing similar, I'd be interested in swapping thoughts/ideas...

Best regards,
Jon.

[bgullatt]

I'm doing the same. I am curious what to use to bond the polystyrene sheets together. I tried contact cement but when I start shaping it doesn't hold.

Bill Gullatt
Harvest, AL - USA

[LotusNova]

I'm using a general purpose glue. It's water based & the cheapest I could get (the DIY stores' own, so no brand name). Normally used for polystyrene, wood, etc. Takes 24 hours to set, but apart from that seems to work fine. Seems to set to roughly the same hardness as the polystryrene, so surforms/sands down well too.

[andy]

I'm doing a GT car and am using various ways to make the buck. mainly I am cutting up bits of fibreglass /wood, bonding them in place and then covering it with expanding foam and smoothing with filler.
Then where the end finish is weak I am scraping the foam out and back filling with fibreglass.

This process has allowed me to make very good progress in a short period of time.

[LotusNova]

Here's a current pic of me bodywork. I'm currently reshaping the bodyline at the rear, to lower the wheelarches & so she looks less like a pick-up from the back.



How's everyone else doing?

[LotusNova]

Now looks less like a duck's arse too.