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Old 05-21-2017, 09:16 PM
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To follow up on what Richard said, some years back when MM was doing the Sultan's Bugatti design (which was sadly all lost in the backup fiasco), I asked Gene Olsen to make me printouts for a cycle car size (8' long roadster version of the body. He printed them full size on an antique Hewlett-Packard pen plotter and sent the drawings for all the ribs and spars to me.

I purchased a few sheets of 7 ply marine 1/2" plywood, glued the drawings to the plywood with spray contact cement. In about a day, I had cut out the entire buck for the body. He later sent me the drawings for the fenders but I have never got around to making the buck because I lost interest in the project when I started on my roadster. The buck is up in the attic of my shop.

My point is that the buck is probably within 1/16 of the drawings and that is about as close as I'm ever going to work a buck to anyway. Final smoothing will always be creating fair curves from panel to panel...buck be damned.
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