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steelwoolghandi · Post by **steelwoolghandi** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:07 pm

I have build car bodies out of Polystyrene and moded bodies from other plastic cars but this is my first molded and cast body.

It’s a 1947 Ford Cab Over and I made the mold first then cast the body. The outside came out great and the inside is hollow to allow the RC parts. The inside is a bid rough but the outside came out smooth as a baby’s bottom.

The only thing that did not come out right that I will fix in the next mold is the step side off the fenders. On this body I can just add a piece of polystyrene and no one will notice once painted.

The original body is metal and so to make an RC out of it was going to be to heavy and the fenders and body were two piece so I did not want to deal with that also.

I left a section on the back to attach any type of Bed (Flat or Box) and still allow enough room for the RC Chassis underneath it.

Here are some pictures of the COE body I will be building a flat bed on the first one and I think a Box bed on the next one.

ibjamn · Post by **ibjamn** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:15 pm

It looks great man.

You were able to get the detail in the grill, and it looks like the lights came out very well. That looked like the most problematic areas..... can't wait to see what you'll do with it

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:51 pm

That came out great!

You are always hooking up some really cool rides.

What did you make your mold out of?

steelwoolghandi · Post by **steelwoolghandi** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:25 am

sg219 wrote:
What did you make your mold out of?

The mold was made out of liquified Latex Rubber. You brush it on to the truck and put about 10 coats of it on. After that you pull it off and you have the outside mold.

You then do the inside mold so that you can make a hollow cavaty for the RC chassis to fit into. It took about a week and a half just to make the two mold. I have found making these is not a quick process.

The cast soft drys in 24 hours and it hard dries in 72 hours.

there is more to the process such as mold release and the mixing of the material and yada, yada, yada......

I have my eye already on another truck I want to do a mold of but I want to finish one of these to see if its worth doing another one

Post by **CaboWabo** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:26 am

That's crazy, awesome job!

Like the others, I can't wait to see what you do with it either. lol

Dangerous Dave · Post by **Dangerous Dave** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:54 pm

nice work!! having tried this before, I know it aint easy..

for making moulds, you can't beat silicone rubbers, though they cost a bit more.

that looks like a similar polyester resin to what I tried, there are better 50:50 mix white PU resins available that also mix to a thin consistency for excellent detail reproduction.

Waiting to see ya finished truck

DarkTari · Post by **DarkTari** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:20 pm

All I can say is " I Wanna Order One "

ibjamn · Post by **ibjamn** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:44 pm

DarkTari wrote:All I can say is " I Wanna Order One "

Not even released yet, and already backordered.

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:19 pm

HobbyCast has instructional videos and other free help if you want to see this process done. http://www.hobbycast.net/video.htm

steelwoolghandi · Post by **steelwoolghandi** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:00 pm

If this works out ok and it seem to I found a source for 2 Gal of Casting material and material for making Rubber molds.

I plan to make more but I need to speed up the process (not sure it can be done)

I will be posting pictures as soon as I get far enough ahead to have something worth while to see.

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:04 pm

steelwoolghandi wrote: I plan to make more but I need to speed up the process (not sure it can be done)

Take some speed.

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:47 am

That's awesome, steelie! I can't wait to see how you build that out, it's gonna be sweet.

ynad · Post by **ynad** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:02 pm

SuperFly wrote:That's awesome, steelie! I can't wait to see how you build that out, it's gonna be sweet.

Word up