The Ferrari 1950 Ferarri 166 F2 Of Gastone Piegatoassale

Home Page: Dave D
Federal Way, WA, USA

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Bodywork

Dave D — Posted on The Cyclekart Club
Tuesday January 17, 2017 5:08 PM

For the front and rear bodywork, which has alot of compound curvature,
I built up frames of mdf formers and sheeted over with 3/16 balsa strips.
The more complex curves are carved from foam.

You can see the balsa strip planking and how the transition to sculpted foam intersect. Lots of sanding.

No really good pictures of the framework. Sorry. All these strips were glued on individually and dovetailed at different points

After all the sanding the entire piece is glassed with 4oz cloth and epoxy resin. Well wetted out and rolled, you can't even see it.

The radiator grill is built up from shaped 1/8" sintra parts. Notched and glued.

Member Comments on Journal Entry: Bodywork ↵

2017-01-20 05:50:12 # 39797

Comment by Dennis Backstrom

Hey Bud, I truly love the nose of your car. Plus whole car looks fantastic. Looking forward to seeing it in person. Congrats

2017-01-24 19:06:01 # 39865

Comment by Dave D

Thanks Dennis. Sorry I missed your comment the other day.I'm real close to finishing. Then I'll put a bunchmore out.

2017-01-24 21:07:31 # 39870

Comment by Russ Van Dine D

I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THIS SAME MODEL. Any chance you have your drawings still and would like to share them?

2017-01-25 00:20:53 # 39873

Comment by Dave D

Russ, I literally layed my frame out in sharpie on my work table (still there) and scaled up the bulkhead stations from a small 3 view drawing on smcars.net. and drew right on the material. Most of the body is just eyeball sculpture. I really should take molds from it before I wreck anything. Even if I built another one,It would come out a little different.and have to start from scratch again.

2017-02-08 20:02:54 # 40185

Comment by Dave D

Oh Bud, I missed you somehow. Thanks.I wanted the nose long like the real one.Hope I can keep on there for a while!

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