ps10-mk3_2010-04-18

This weekend I could spend a bit of time working on the car, it was not too much, but I did what I had planed for it. The last time I worked on the car, I levelled the metal frame that holds the car, by sticking some wood blocks under the metal frame. One of the things that I did this weekend was to number each of the blocks and mark each position in the floor, so if I ever need to move the car to other place, I can easily level it when it get back to the shed. Besides that, I worked in the area between the hood and the front glass, since there was missing some bits of foam. So, I just glued some foam in there, which will then be shaved to shape, following the contours of the hood. Since I only had time to do this on Sunday, the didn't dried on time to start shaving the foam, so it will have to wait to next time.

ps10-mk3_2010-01-31

This weekend I worked a just little bit more in the car. I bought a SurForm tool from Stanley, and I found out how much easy is to model the foam. It doesn't produces a smooth surface as a paper-sand, but its good enough, and it cuts quite fast :D I did some work on the front wheel arches, as they were missing some bits on its ends. I had already glued some foam on those ends, so it was just a mater of giving it some form, which was quite easy with the SurForm tool :). I also did some work on the front wind-shield with the Surform tool to smooth some parts. I was about to level the all car so that I could see if there is some bad problems to solve, like something being "bent" or higher on some side. When I took the car outside, it appeared to me that the roof was higher on one side, but after looking at it with more attention,I guess that the rear end is lower from one side due to the wood structure from that side had fallen off of its support, but I am still not sure. I will have to reinforce the metal frame so that it wont bend so easily, and only then I can start taking measures and take some conclusions. I hope the car is not too much twisted... Oh, sorry about the quality of the picture, they were taken with my cell phone...

ps10-mk3_2010-01-10

This weekend was time to bring the car to the light of day :) The main problem is that I had laying at the front of the door of the garage lots of old doors and windows, which I had to remove them to another site to be able to open the door of the garage and bring the car outside. The purpose of bringing the car outside was to be able to see the all car with out having that post in the middle of it so I can have an idea of the dimension of the all car. In some photos that I took and photoshop'ed to remove the post out of the car, I got with the impression that the car had a very large wheel base and a bit disproportional to the length of the all car, so this trip to the outside helped me to clear thins out. It turns out that the car has a long wheel base, but not as long as I was thinking, It has a wheel base of about 1770mm, which is a bit bigger than most of the supercars around, but by the looks of it, I guess it doesn't get bad at all. This are excellent news, as I was already prepared to cut the car in half to reduce the wheel base :),I am glad that I will not have to do that... Bringing the car to the outside, also allowed me to look at the car from angles that I had never looked at it. I had never been able to look at it from behind, and it revealed that roof is higher on the right side of the car, so, I guess that will be the next thing on my TODO list :) Besides this, I worked a bit more on the rear wheel arches, and I guess they are done, at least for now. I have also glued some bits of foam on some places of the car that was missing, mainly on the front wheel arches. The next time I work on it, I will carve that foam bits to shape. Take a look on the photos to have an idea of how the all thing is. Don't mind the wheels, as they have the wrong size, mainly the rear ones. Sorry about the bad pictures, but the sun was right on top of the car and with the withe wall on the back it was quite difficult to get a decent contrast between the car and the wall.

ps10-mk3_2009-12-06

This weekend I spend a bit more time working on the car, continuing to work on the rear right wheel arch. It is finaly starting to look like something, but it stil needs some work. I am now "studying" if I can use "foam putty" to enhace some parts of the wheel arches as well as some other parts of the car. With this putty, instead of having to glue bits of foam and then give them the desired shape, I hope I can mold the putty in place and then smooth it with sandpaper. I have already seen some DIY guides to make this putty, it might work, just need to find out where can I get Borax: http://reviews.ebay.ie/Homemade-Foam-Modelling-Putty_W0QQugidZ10000000001919153
Sorry about the bad quality pictures, I used my phone to take them...

ps10-mk3_2009-11-15

This weekend I continued the work on enlarging the rear left wheel arch. I glued some more bits of foam in order to make it bigger. On Sunday I tried to start cutting the foam into its last shape, but the glue wasn't completely dried and I had to stop. I have also worked a bit on the fron windshield, I cuted some small bits of foam that I had previously glued to correct some mistakes I did. One of those bits of foam was not well tight, so I had to glue it again so I can cut it on the next time.

ps10-mk3_2009-10-28

Some photos from some work I did about 3 weeks ago and forgot to update the site. In that weekend I worked a bit more on the rear right wheel arch and its starting to take its final shape. I tried to apply some polyurethane foam in order to smooth some parts but that didn't went well, so decided to remove all the polyurethane foam that I had applied. After that, I turned my attention to the other wheel, which had not received any work in order to increase its size. I started to glue some bits of foam, but unfortunately I went out of glue, so I couldn't finishing this initial process to increase the wheel arch. On the next time I will have to glue some more foam, wait for it to dry, and only then remove the excess. If the glue wouldn't have runned out, I could start by sculpting the foam instead right away. Sorry about the bad quality of the pictures, they were taken with the cell phone...