Building a new body for my zip zap

Ecca · Post by **Ecca** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:36 pm

Currently I am thinking about Bondo or Kitty hair fiberglass bondo.
Was wondering if anyone could think of a better thing to build it out of.

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:50 pm

You should try the Goku mod on it first!!

You could try to take pencil shavings from a pencil sharpener and mix them with powered milk and gatorade for color to form a paste for sculpting.

Ecca · Post by **Ecca** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:56 pm

Any serious responses?

ibjamn · Post by **ibjamn** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:40 pm

If you are going to drive it around, bondo may be too brittle to work withat a small scale. kitty hair is a pain to work with in small detail.......
I'm being too negative? aren't I?

If you want to try something like that, you can get casting and mold kits at places like Hobby lobby and such.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:57 am

make yourself a vacum forming bench

Ecca · Post by **Ecca** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:17 am

ibjamn wrote:If you are going to drive it around, bondo may be too brittle to work withat a small scale. kitty hair is a pain to work with in small detail.......
I'm being too negative? aren't I?

If you want to try something like that, you can get casting and mold kits at places like Hobby lobby and such.

No perfect reply. I was thinking about making the body out of the kitty hair and then sanding it into a rectangle and making the rest out of bondo.

I'm going to look into the molding kits right now thanks for the good reply.

Nasphere · Post by **Nasphere** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:51 pm

betty.k wrote:make yourself a vacum forming bench

Damn straight! I'm workin on a vacuum table right now!

Ecca · Post by **Ecca** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:01 pm

Nasphere wrote:
betty.k wrote:make yourself a vacum forming bench
Damn straight! I'm workin on a vacuum table right now!

Yeah, I think I am going to go that route. Currently carving the car out of wood for a male mold.

Dangerous Dave · Post by **Dangerous Dave** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:44 am

vac forming is sweet once set up - I've been doing it for years making bodies for AFX (HO) slot cars.

Clear PVC is also a cheaper option (and easier to find) than polycarbonate (Lexan). Needs less heat to form too

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:13 pm

one day my dream of a 100% jbweld bit will be a reality

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:27 am

hogjowlz wrote:one day my dream of a 100% jbweld bit will be a reality

Holy Shit......

You live dude. Where ya been ya slack bastard?

silla

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon May 14, 2007 7:48 am

hogjowlz wrote:one day my dream of a 100% jbweld bit will be a reality

You haven't done that yet? What the hell have you been doing?

What's up man?