I'm not too sure how familiar you guys are with this but thought I'd ask whether anyone has attempted with that technique. As far as I know, this is done with chopped carbon fiber strands under high pressure. At least that's how Audemars Piguet does it with their watches. Recently, Lamborghini started using this method as well for their Sesto Elemento concept cars.  Does anybody have a clue whether this can be done in a home-based environment or you need hi-tech machinery?

Yeh I've played around with thermoplastics, but all the ones I've used are a 200C melting point, which makes it an ali tool only sort of product. Not much use for it for me, but for any big companies doing mass production (like BMW, Boeing, etc) the very quick cycle times would make it pretty viable over thermosets. Being able to make a whole roof with outer and inner skins bonded together and perfectly trimmed all in one hit in less than 5 minutes - cant do that with a thermoset.