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Has got its face now.
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I cleaned up the cutouts for the lights, added some shape to the lower part because it was too flat, and I am quite happy how it turned out... ready to weld it all together now...
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Must feel good to be happy enough to start welding it all together.
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Thanks Marcus
yes, it certainly does :-) I do practise welding at the moment before I mess the car up ;-)
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Greetings Axel! I am very glad to see you here! Good job !!! Your friend Boris.
http://boris-nikitin.ru/forum/kitkar...3?limitstart=0 My new project, I want to make it in the metal. Will you study here!
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Awesome to see your project! Really inspiring! : )
Fantastic work, especially considering your experience. /Thomas
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Lovely project, Axel. One of my all-time favorites.
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Thanks guys,
it is on hold at the moment because of some other projects, but I promise I will continue soon and keep you updated!
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Axel Kloehn |
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I am back!
Some things have changed in my life, and it looks like it is all sorted out now, so it is finally the time to continue my built. The body is all welded together now, which was a nightmare with the long weld seams and the heat transfered to the metal panels, but I managed to have a two big piece metal body (plus two doors, bonnet) now. The front end is still a flipfront which is different to the original car but makes installation much easier, and now I am working on a lot of subtructure, details and bay panels. Much work and you see very little progress...but I try to work on the car every time when possible. For those who are interested in welding, I used CuSi wire with Argon, the reason is that you work quicker and there is not so much heat transfered in the panels, the weld seam is non-corroding and has almost the strength of standard welds with wire/CO2. But you need to practise, I am neither a welder nor a metalshaper, but I can live with the result. One thing you realize is, welding works fine with panels who have a lot of shape- not much distorsion, but with flat panels with very little shape in them you'll get a lot of distorsion while welding them together...you need to take this into consideration when you plan your built and where to put the panels together...! Now comes some difficult panels for the front, I am working out its face with headlights and the plexi cover for this needs a recessed surface. I am trying to figure out how to do the recess with metal, my cutout in the frontwing is already too big, so I need to add some material. Offsetting it with a pliers did not work well, so I will try to use the cut out metal as a template for this feature and do it in another way...
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Axel Kloehn |
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I'm happy to see you're back on the project.
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