body/own design...

[jakob kuhlstroem]

Hi all,

I am to built a TA03F Impreza...

But, also, trying to make my own body to it...

Fibreglass and so on...

Anybody else who has done this?

Maybe some hints on the subject?

All the best,

Jakob Kuhlstroem

[WillyChang]

Fibreglass will be pretty heavy! []

[mud4fun]

Hi Jakob, WillyChang is quite correct, fibreglass is very heavy. I just finished a project using a toy car shell which was made of fibreglass (or so it would appear as it has the signs of being hand layed up on the inside) and the shell weighs 500g.

Why do you need to make your own shell? - there are plenty of subaru impreza shells out there from many different manufacturers. It is probably the most common shell on any R/C car.

[Matt2000]

sometimes people like to make it hard for themselves, mud4fun!

[WillyChang]

Maybe he's bought the TA03F Subaru kit and wants to build a custom (ie not Suby) bodyshell for it? [8)]

[jakob kuhlstroem]

Hi all,

yes, want to built something totally different.

I had a feeling of that fibreglass will be heavy, what to use instead?

All the best,

Jakob

[Martin71RS(2)]

make a body out of wood and find a place that can do vacuum forming.... (they heat a lexan or plastic sheet and pull a vacuum so it forms over your "mold")

Martin

[jakob kuhlstroem]

Thanks Martin, and everybody,

I will try the wood/lexan/vacuum- thing...

All the best,

Jakob

[Clinehobbies]

In one of my tamiya radio control guide books there is section on building a body out of sheet styrene.

Bill

[jimtt01]

quote:

Originally posted by Martin71RS

make a body out of wood and find a place that can do vacuum forming.... (they heat a lexan or plastic sheet and pull a vacuum so it forms over your "mold")

Martin

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i did this a few years ago, filled a renualt laguna shell with plaster of paris and put it in the schools vacuum former, worked perfectly and saves £20 a time on shells!