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[Alburglar]

PACE.

No competion because the PACE wheels wil make the arch area look fuller because there's loadsa chunky angular spokes.

I like em better than the other's.
That middle bit makes sense in my head anyway.

[F1 Mini]

Finaly have finished filling the roof and have sprayed it with Highbuild primer.

[F1 Mini]

So next stage was to guide coat it with black and flat it back with 600 grit.

[F1 Mini]

Finished flatting it this afternoon and have started to prepair waxing it. It needs 6 coats of the stuff as a release agent for the mould.

[Al*]

nice work F1 so how long exactly did you work on the roof for?

Al

[F1 Mini]

The roof chop took longer than I had expected. Its been nearly 2 Weeks just to get to the mould stage.

[F1 Mini]

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[F1 Mini]

The white gel coat and the first tisue layer aplied.

[Alburglar]

Seeing the process of making this mould and roof are really interesting. It's a lot of work.
I'm looking forward to finding out how you get thickness and final fit/finish.

[F1 Mini]

So am I....

[Dom]

wow what date did you start this, and when do you think your'll finish it?

[Alburglar]

So am I....

LOL

[F1 Mini]

2 Layers of 450 Gram matt on today, but have ran out of Resin to put on the Paper rope for support. Will get more tomorrow and finish off before I go to work, so by next sat/sun should be curred ready for removal in one piece ( I HOPE Fingers crossed )

Thats about 3 weeks so far this had better work.

[Woody]

My mate ran his own firm making Ferarri repicas (in grp) and his advice was to cut plywood formers and laminate them into the mould while still on the roof to suport the mould once removed from the roof .

[Alburglar]

My mate ran his own firm making Ferarri repicas (in grp) and his advice was to cut plywood formers and laminate them into the mould while still on the roof to suport the mould once removed from the roof .

My uncle recommends that, but if it's only gonna be used once it isn't gonna be that important