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Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Land Models / February 2004Body building
Does anyone know how i can build my own body for my xmod from scratch. I'm new so i'don't know. Please help me. > Does anyone know how i can build my own body for my xmod from scratch. > I'm new so i'don't know. Please help me. http://www.radtrax.com/lsmold.html milling machine - don't have it band saw - don't have it hand scrapers - don't have it files - got it scribers - don't have it sand papers - got it vacuum chamber - definitely don't have it Hmmm.. only got 2 of the 7 tools he mentioned... back to the drawing board! sul > > Does anyone know how i can build my own body for my xmod from scratch. > > I'm new so i'don't know. Please help me. > > http://www.radtrax.com/lsmold.html > milling machine - don't have it > band saw - don't have it [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > http://www.radtrax.com/lsmold.html and it's just the milling machine I don't have, I've got the rest........!!! Regards........Mark You could consider making your mold from cheap fiberglass and resins etc. using an exisitng bodyshell if you have it after treating it with some release agents. You don't need a vacuum chamber and can build yourself an inexpensive vacuum pump using a fridge compressor. There are many ways to skin the cat and similarly quite a few techniques to vacuum thermo molding. Styrene and ABS are possibly even cheaper and easier to vacuum mold than Lexan and ABS is likely just as strong. If you're going through the trouble of making a fibreglass mold you can easily make composite bodyshells using vacuumbagging in a female mold. There's not a lot to it and it's a lot easier than it seems. > milling machine - don't have it > band saw - don't have it [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > http://www.radtrax.com/lsmold.html I have actually been considering this for a long time. I have yet to find a good site or spot for information, of course I am not saying it's not out there, I just haven't come across it. I did speak to someone who is quite good with fiberglassing. He said you could use a lightweight fiberglass, but then if you crash your car, your shell is pretty much toast. Plus you'd have to spend the time sanding the shell after it dries and then applying bondo to smooth it out.. then sanding that, plus priming and painting. Sounds like a ton of work when a shell is relatively inexpensive to begin with. I have actually considered finding a cheap toy truck or something like that where I could retrofit that body on to my RS4. I'd love to have a chopped school bus shell. (pics take a second to load) http://autohobbypage.com/cgi-bin/image.pl?/show/01/cuse/nat027.jpg http://autohobbypage.com/cgi-bin/image.pl?/show/01/cuse/nat026.jpg sul > Does anyone know how i can build my own body for my xmod from scratch. > I'm new so i'don't know. Please help me. > I have actually considered finding a cheap toy truck or something like > that where I could retrofit that body on to my RS4. I'd love to have a > chopped school bus shell. Many people use Tamiya plastic model kits and retrofit the bodies on to various rc cars. maybe ask in: www.one18th.com |
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