Hello Rick, welcome to allmetalshaping. If you want to build an aluminium body there are many skills to learn first. To me there is no point in making it in ally if it is going to be coated in plastic filler so shaping the metal and smoothing it to a metal finish are important. Welding ally is somthing you need to be able to do well to get good results with the finished panels. I use only gas welding for aluminium. Even though I make new bodies and panels for a living and have several wheeling machines a couple of pullmax machines shrinkers etc. I would say that eighty percent of the work I do is by hand, hand forming, welding and hand finishing so in my opinion these are the most important skills to learn.
David
Here is a photo of one of my aluminium bodies in bare metal finish.
