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Moulding a full car

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Daz	Daz posted 10 Years Ago Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 93, Visits: 651	andygtt (22/07/2014) having taken moulds of my entire car i can confirm that you are extremely unlikely to not damage most if not all the panels on the donor car in some small or major way. The process is full or potential pitfalls when doing a complete car as you are subject to weather and temperature as you can't put the thing in a temp controlled environment so your materials can react with paint etc...firstly there is the damage risk when your peeping the donor e.g. putting the barriers on, filleting the edges... Ive also had the gel coat react badly with paint when it was a little cold and took longer to cure than usual. Then there is the times were the secondary layers 'splashed' on the paint and caused bubbles. After the mould is made you have to remove it, usually the buck takes a battering on removal, sometimes the mould sticks and requires brute force to remove. Having one it there is not a chance i would attempt it on someone else's 'expensive' car that they don't want damaged lol DITTO..
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andygtt	andygtt posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 157, Visits: 1.2K	having taken moulds of my entire car i can confirm that you are extremely unlikely to not damage most if not all the panels on the donor car in some small or major way. The process is full or potential pitfalls when doing a complete car as you are subject to weather and temperature as you can't put the thing in a temp controlled environment so your materials can react with paint etc...firstly there is the damage risk when your peeping the donor e.g. putting the barriers on, filleting the edges... Ive also had the gel coat react badly with paint when it was a little cold and took longer to cure than usual. Then there is the times were the secondary layers 'splashed' on the paint and caused bubbles. After the mould is made you have to remove it, usually the buck takes a battering on removal, sometimes the mould sticks and requires brute force to remove. Having done it there is not a chance i would attempt it on someone else's 'expensive' car that they don't want damaged lol
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FLD	FLD posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 2.7K	Manchester Met do laser scanning and faro arm scanning. Both of these should do the job althought I'm not sure of costs. Given its fairly new tech I'd expect to be needing deep pockets to get a whole car done.
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eastender	eastender posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 1, Visits: 6	3-D scanner eh... any chance one could rent such a thing ? like Asad I am also very interested in replicating my car in carbon fiber, however I have another car to dismantle,
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ajb100	ajb100 posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 346, Visits: 4.4K	These guys can do both, but are old style bucks. Use their scan to go to these guys http://3dengineers.co.uk CNC buck machining http://www.polystyrenemodels.co.uk/polystyrene_models.html
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AsadHussain	AsadHussain posted 10 Years Ago Post Details
Group: Awaiting Activation Posts: 8, Visits: 19	@supreme being any suggestions of a company that might be able to do a 3d scan of the car and make a foam mould??
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ajb100	ajb100 posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 346, Visits: 4.4K	A silhouette F type race car would be pretty cool!!
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dbcrx	dbcrx posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 46, Visits: 1.2K	Are you wanting to make replica panels for the whole car, as in make the bonnet and doors so they're all fully functional? If so then no, you'll have to take the car apart. Or are you saying you want to make a kit car body that is just one whole piece, kind of like the body of a nascar car (so you'd have to climb in through the windows). If this is the case then you could do it with a multiple piece mold (very multiple!) and just do the bonnet separate.
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ajb100	ajb100 posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 346, Visits: 4.4K	easy composites also supply moulding kits. the ideal process you seem to be after would be to 3d scan the vehicle and then mill a foam buck from the scan!
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The Fibreglass King	The Fibreglass King posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 69, Visits: 652	Hi Asad, I do not know of any such product to achieve what you want in profiling the car, Getting back to the mould making there is a company called East Coast Fibreglass: they supply mould making starter kits of varied sizes, these have all the materials you would need to make basic moulds, I think one of these would be ideal for you to have a go with on your golf !! Hope this helps?? Kind Regards The Fibreglass King
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