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Old 08-13-2002, 06:26 PM   #1
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Lightbulb Intercooler - Scratchbuild How To...

Some time ago Dan (daggerlee) asked me how to go about making one of these. Unfortunately i never got around to doing it til now - sorry Dan! Its something that i want to include in my venture as resin parts in a variety of different sizes and styles. But for the members of AF, here's how to make one. This one was put together in about an hour, no accurate measurements were taken or indepth research - just a quickie!

Stage one - The face of the intercooler is made from a styrene sheet available from Evergreen which has grooves in it, normally used in rail modeling. This is not thick enough on its own so two 30thou and one 20thou plain styrene sheets were sandwiched together




Stage two - The end pieces are made from 4 triangular shapes cut from 10thou sheet with styrene tubing inbetween.





Stage three - Putty added to fill ends.


Tomorrow i will sand it and add the weld seems - stay tuned!
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