and now, something completely different....

[Howielong]

Nice idea. Good luck with it.

[drunken monkey]

or maybe i'll go backwards.
i think i can do a makeshift body shape over wire with paper and card (years of architecture and i end up making little cars....)
and then see how that translates into metal.
THEN i'll see about making a chassis to fit the body properly.

hell yeah!
that's it.
i'm going to make my own 1/24 car!
grrrrrrr, it WILLwill be done.

[mike@af]

Heres an idea about your body. Make it out of wire and paper mache. Then make a mold of that and resin cast one. Just a thought.

[drunken monkey]

by resin, do you mean the two part clear cast, or is there something else?
wouldn't that (assuming the clear cast) be a bit brittle?
i'm not very good with the clear cast.
the last thing i made i didn't allow enough time for curing before applying the next layer and it all started to crack after a few days.
(i'm not very patient and totally not suited to model making...)

i was thinking i could just bond little bits of plastic cut+bent into body panel shapes.
i've just been replicating a ferrari 308 nose section.
not too difficult.
but then, the 308 isn't the hardest shape to make.
i keep getting urges to try and make an elise.
the chassis tub wouldn't be too difficult but the body shell with it's curves, well, i'm not sure where to begin.
if i do that i would need to make molds, not to mention source some plans from somewhere (hint hint).

or just a basic triangulated form on which i add copious amounts of putty.

so many options.

AND i'm still a bit lost about how they join the body of real cars to the chassis.
how would i translate that onto my model?

so many questions....

i've also been sketching some layout options and body shapes.
it always seems to end up like some mutant offspring of a gt40, 246 dino, 360 (itself a 246 derivative) and the vauxhall/opel vx220.

maybe i should just break out the clay and see what i can do with my hands....

hmm, maybe i'm taking this too seriously?