Here’s a little photo essay of something I built a while ago. It was rendered up using Rhino, Sketchup & 3D builder, then printed as various parts in ABS and constructed as a model. The canopy was vacformed from a scratchbuilt master and.. well you know the rest. This was only intended as a “proof of concept” model for my techniques and as such will never be a production kit… however, there is new tech on the horizon for Uncle Les .. we’ll wait and see.
So many projects, only one life !
Here’s the glamour shots taken outside on my portable tarmac.
Here’s how it started – as a file on a screen, then it took form by virtue of an UP3D Plus2 FDM printer.
Some scratchbuilding required !
Getting closer to the end.
It has competed and won a couple of gongs over the year but it was never intended to be a comp model. It has been retired now and lives in a cabinet along with its siblings.