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A week or two to finish ?
Alan B - 4/10/08 at 09:34 PM

linky

Yeah right...LOL

blakep82 - 4/10/08 at 09:43 PM

i don't know... looks close enough to me

blakep82 - 4/10/08 at 09:44 PM



ooooh, right i see...

blakep82 - 4/10/08 at 09:51 PM

actually, its a mould to make a fibreglass (or CF?) body for a reventon, so maybe a week or 2 is fair? if you had 2 soloid weeks to put into it maybe?

BenB - 4/10/08 at 10:04 PM

Oooooh that's nasty!!!! $5k for a load of pink foam and some bondo???

Taking the pi$$ if you ask me!!!

Alan B - 4/10/08 at 10:06 PM

Not even remotely close.....but that's just my opinion....I'd say to get that to a usable plug..500hrs minimum

Interested to hear what other plug builders would estimate......

blakep82 - 4/10/08 at 10:09 PM

having never built ( or thought about building) one myself...

hellbent345 - 4/10/08 at 10:20 PM

id love to see a kit based on the reventon, its an amazing looking car but that.... is nowhere near finished. hahahahahahahaahhahahaha long way from it

Chippy - 4/10/08 at 11:05 PM

I would say that a couple of weeks would be a fair time to complete it, as long as you don't mind working 100 hour days. Wow! what a heap of shite. Cheers Ray

Volvorsport - 4/10/08 at 11:55 PM

3 months at least .

donut - 5/10/08 at 08:26 AM

Stunning looking car !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

smart51 - 5/10/08 at 08:31 AM

I like it, it makes my buck look really good.

mangogrooveworkshop - 5/10/08 at 12:13 PM

the tube link

sgraber - 6/10/08 at 06:42 PM

1 year of weekends and evenings. at least.

Alan B - 6/10/08 at 07:04 PM

I somehow expected Steve may have an opinion on this one...it's a LOT of work isn't it?

andyps - 6/10/08 at 10:23 PM

On top of all the hours work, surely a shape like that would not be an easy one for using as a mould, all those complex and inverted creases. I could just imagine laying it all up and then finding you had to destroy everything to release the finished product. Only other alternative would be lots of small mouldings.

kb58 - 6/10/08 at 10:35 PM

A year, assuming about 2 hrs a day. Or take that $5000 and buy a shell already done, keeping the extra 700 hrs of your life as a bonus.

[edit] no... reconsidering what little has been done, make that a couple years, really. To make the rough buck (easy) making it near-perfect (1000 hrs+), making the multi-section molds off it (a few hundred hours), then laying up the first shell (easy.) It's a lot of very, very tedius work.


[Edited on 10/7/08 by kb58]

sgraber - 6/10/08 at 10:45 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Alan B
I somehow expected Steve may have an opinion on this one...it's a LOT of work isn't it?


Indeed, indeed.

I really think it's more than just the number of hours. It's the 'quality' of those hours as Kurt alludes to. Sanding your life away can either be a meditative experience or living hell on earth. And both can occur at the same time. Not for the faint of heart as 2 hours per night sanding a big chunk of plaster/fiberglass is a lot different than 2 hours a night playing video games!

Fred W B - 7/10/08 at 05:59 AM

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please allow a week or two to finish


Not a *uck. As others have said above, at least a year plus plus as a part time job.

There is no hard skin yet, none of those lines or edges are straight, etc etc. That plug is maybe 30 percent done, if that.

Also, I dought very much if it could be moved without falling to bits anyway.

Cheers

Fred W B



[Edited on 7/10/08 by Fred W B]