Ok, lets continue with the next post.
Like I said in the first post this one is called "Research and Design"
The previous car models that I build are all at scale 1:24 but i like to try to make a bigger model to put in more details.
I have choozen to make it in scale 1:10 because it it an easy scale to calculate from original to my model and it will fit my workspace quite good because its not so big.
There are not many Opel Kadett Coupe kits for sale, most of them are die-cast cars in the scale 1:18 or smaller.
Recently the manufacturer Arenamodelli lanched a 1:24 kit, but like I said I want to make a bigger model.
That means I would have to make it myself and for that there a several options:
1: Make it out of resin, for that I will have to make a master first but this will take a lot of time and the results if u never done it before are mostly not that good.
So this is no option for me.
2: Vacu-vorm the body, for this also i would have to make a master and again like de first option the result will probably not satisfy what i have in mind.
3: Make a body like they make wooden boats.
This is als a way they create bodies from old (racing) cars by hand.
They use a wooden frame which has the shape of the body and fit all handmade bodypanels around this frame.
This is what i mean:
For this methode i will have to divide the car in several sections to make all the trusses which will have to be coated with strips of styrene.
To create a firm body i will have to coat the frame with at least 2 layers of styrene.
The first one over the lenght of the body and the second one across the first layer.
This 3rd methode is the one i choose and for that i will need sevreal drawing from this car , side drawings, front and back drawings and a top drawing.
The side, front and rear drawing were easy to find:
The top drawing was harder to find but i did find some original design drawings from the Opel Kadett Coupe.
This was just a photo from an original drawing so it wasn't straight.
I made a new drawing from it in scale 1:10 with a CAD drawing program.
I used the side and top drawing to determine were i should make all the different sections to make the frame.
I labelled the sections from A to U, the positions from the front and rear axle are also sections so i won't lose these measurements during the build.
During this design period i also collected a lot of information about the Corvette C4 so i could see how everything would fit.
For that I put the top drawings from the Kadett and the Corvette over ech other on one drawing to see the differences.
The red outline is from the Opel Kadett and the black outline is the Corvette.
U can see how much wider the body from the Corvette is according to the Opel Body.
The axels are (almost) at the same spot, later during this build i found that the wheelbase from the Corvette is a littlebit bigger than the one from the Kadett.
Also very important were the correct drawings from the Corvette Chassis.\
There were several chassis versions but these are the correct ones for my build.
This is the end of this post the next post will be the "Designing"