paper fto

[ShOrtyOC714]

Originally Posted by XspudX

I don't think I could have the patience to do those

What he said ^^^ Good work so far.

[pettercardoso]

Originally Posted by simdel1

are you going to put any pictures of yours up on here?

I don't have a digi cam...still waiting for Santa to give me one...Hopefully a Sony DSC-F828

[simdel1]

Originally Posted by Hiroboy

This is coming along fast and I do hope you finish it.
What colour are you doing the body? White.
For those of you that doing know you can download it from my FTO website here :
http://www.mitsubishi-fto.org/info/papercraft.htm

sorry, i missed this post last time round.

yes, it will be boring white. i could do it a colour if i decided to print it out on the card, but it will probably make some of the joints on the outside very obvious. besides, my printers almost out of coloured ink

petter, i hope to see some photos of yours soon then

[simdel1]

ok, for those keeping track theres not been much progress since the last update. i have been busy prototyping a new seat for the car.

iv decided on the sparco corsa:


it will have a carbon fibre effect back (although in real life the corsa is not sold with carbon as an option) and will have dark grey 'fabric'.

prototyping is almost complete, just 2 more parts to design then ill post some pictures of it. hopefully i will have a fully complete example of the seat by tonight...just in time for the xmas drinking

[Zcaithaca]

THATS HOTT!!!great idea...i wanna see it done

[simdel1]

ok, prototyping is pretty much done now. Here's some pics and a little bit explaining each of them.


These are a couple of my early prototypes for the seat back/frame. the one on the left was the first, very simple one. then on the second one (right) i added more shape mainly in the rake of the back of the seat.


now this is the 'finished' prototype. i say finished, but as you can see its missing the side cussion on the right hand side (from the drivers point of view) and the side holes for the harness are also missing. these will be sorted out though. because this is a prototype there are all sorts of lines over it from my rough working and of course, because the prototype is not going into the car, iv not spent ages building it perfectly. there are quite a few areas that need to be patched up before i make the real thing, but its close enough to give you an idea of what i have achieved. From the rear shot you can see a large black area. this is my carbon fibre effect that i printed out and stuck on to see what it looked like. unfortunately the camera has not picked up the subtle pattern. in total (when the right side cussion is added) the seat is made from 6 parts. i also need to make the mounting frame, but that should be very simple compared to what iv done so far.

comments welcome

[sweetwhiteCAV]

if you didnt tell me, id have no idea that was paper.... great stuff man...

[willster127]

INSANE!

That looks awesome man, keep up the good work!

[SnakekanS]

Originally Posted by willster127

INSANE!

That looks awesome man, keep up the good work!

INSANE has to be the right word to describe your work

thats incredible work dude !! keep it up !!!

[willimo]

Not only are you building a paper car, but you're modifying a paper car. How cool is that!

[ratdat]

Originally Posted by willimo

Not only are you building a paper car, but you're modifying a paper car. How cool is that!

Very


Simdel1 - you are but I am in awe of this project! You must have a lot of patience ...I know how fiddle paper stuff can be.

Still... there is one advantage over plastic... if you screw a part up you can just make a new one

[Sebstar]

you never cease to amaze me dude! INSANE in the BRAIN!

[pettercardoso]

Any updates?! I'm really curious how this is turning out

[simdel1]

yes petter...heres some more.

unfortunately its not going too well. i may have to re do most of the dash because iv just totally messed it up. its way too fiddly and i just made too many silly errors that made it look crap. im posting what little extra work iv done. anyway, pics...

dash isnt finished, nor is the seat. side cussion on the right needs to be added, joint between head rest and left side cussion needs to be completed, lower side cussions need adjusting, seat mount needs to added...loads of other things. in other works its nowhere near finished.


a shot showing the back of the seat. a bit of the back is missing, so needs to be added. the shine on the seat back looks good though. the very fine CF pattern does not show in the photo. the opened glove box can also be seen. the latch needs adjusting so that it closes flush. from this view you can see just how bad the dash is. at least its only paper and i can just print out new parts.


this shows the open glove box. you cant see it, but i have built a box behind the hole, and i will put little things like a haynes manual and sun glasses in there.


finally this is an extreme close up of the dash binical. unfortunatly the camera decided to focus on the background on both of the shots i took. ah well at least you can see that i have replaced the black dials with a chrome faced unit. you should also be able too see the piece of acetate i have added to simulate glass infront of the dials. ignor the VERY messed up bits you can see. this will all be replaced.

[chrismcgee]

looking realy good dude, i m amazed at your patience.