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Hello guys

need your advise how to make skining i mean new carbon look that lamborghini use you know that trashy look. any idea guys where to buy that cloth?

Thank you in advance
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I assume you mean the 'marble' carbon fibre? Lamborghini use a pre-preg material for theirs. Someone over on Composites Central made a tutorial video for how to do it with wet lay, though it was a bit crude compared to the Lambo stuff though. I also can't see it working for skinning, you need a mould. Ita basically just a slurry of chopped up spread-tow fibres and resin. 
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Hanaldo its like this. possible to do skinning?

http://www.macarbon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6195-Edit.jpg
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As hanaldo says, it's just chopped up fibres, just pick up what's left on the floor after laying up!
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yes Hanaldo. how to make stuff like that? where to buy material or who can show how to do this?
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It's called forged carbon and is made in an enclosed mould similar to what would be used in the plastics industry to make fishing reels etc.

link to wiki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forged_composite
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so reply where i can get this cloth how i can make overlays or infusion parts this pattern?
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It's not a "cloth" that you can buy ... You may be able to make something that looks like it by cutting up CF tow or loosely woven cloth then just scrunching it up and using this as the top layer in a mould.

I've done that for knife handle material .. mixed with other fibres to give it some colour streaks ..I may be able to find a picture somewhere ..

http://i1068.photobucket.com/albums/u449/DKDravis/Mobile%20Uploads/4F9416D1-C6C1-426D-99CB-DBF9FC07DA51_zpsztenp0vx.jpg

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It is available as a premade cloth, it's called Hexmc. The method is called forged composites, and it is a pre-preg material that is used in compression moulding. Very high pressures and very high heat. 

That's the stuff that Lambo use. Super expensive too I believe. 
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very sad i wanted to do skining.
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