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Thanks Dan.
It sure does take a bunch of time. Its frustrating when you can't get beyond one part of the build. Just got to keep picking away and she'll get done. |
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Trying to not be too technical here, but lofting is a drafting process. As in drawing in 2D (pencil and paper), you loft lines or curves and it's called lofting. In the aircraft world I came from, what is needing done now on the real object is just "fairing" things in. Using your fair curves as a gauge, whatever they're made from. Fairing from one surface to another would be the process.
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I joined this site to learn more about shaping, and after reading through your entire post the first thing I learned is that I have a LOT to learn! You have some serious skills and your car is really turning out great.
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I did some googling and found fairing to use actual guages to check contours and lofting to be in the drafting sense as you mentioned. Good thing I'm not building a boat. I would have had to draw it first and then build it. |
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Thanks Hotrod Johnny. Welcome to the site. As you seen by all the screw ups I still have a lot to learn also. Some advice: Check, Check, and Check! Don't make a panel unless you're 100% sure the shape you are about to create will be correct. Don't weld any panels to your project until the shape is 100% and matches all your contour guages and pattern pretty much exactly. I'm learning this the hard way. |
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i guess the roof chop is a ways away. but you gotta take care of business... one thing i was taught years ago was to build a car from the rear and go forward. as everything else can be moved around and adjusted from there. nice work
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Thanks.
I've never heard the start at the rear and go forward technique. But then again, I've never built a hot rod before either. I figured I would learn on the hardest stuff and go to the easier stuff later. The top chop is starting to look like a piece of cake after what I've been thru this far. |
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I welded in a piece down the center of the hood. I welded straight thru with no worries of warpage. I figure the more it warps, the more to learn by cleaning it up.
Started planishing from the front and worked my slowly back. Its not finished yet but I got most of the major warpage out. Thanks for looking, |
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I started bucking up the front of the hood.
This will allow me to know the exact hood location so that I can make sure the fender metal lofts properly where the hood meets it. I had the buck done as the pic above but something just didn't look right. I had tried to use a tighter radius at the top where it turns downwards. What that accomplished was a radius along the side of the hood that gradually changed to tighter radius as it went forward. So out came the BFH..... And then reworked with the same radius running thru to the nose... Thanks, Last edited by 123pugsy; 05-07-2012 at 09:12 AM. |
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I took my hood and buck down to Dutch's last week and got things moving forward somewhat.
I started by welding up the three pieces for the nose and then welded them to the hood. Of coarse I had to make the buck wrong yet again and had to do some surgery. I made up new pieces for each side and got them welded up. A shot with one of the rear pieces tacked in place. And a shot of it today sittting on the car. Thanks for looking, |
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