THE oldest tear

[ALAN GEDDES]

Please go to my personal album for photos of The oldest tear. Please note the leopard skin curtains. Appears to be quite heavily built but very rugged. Photos were by some guy by the name of F. Flintstone.

[Jiminsav]

Alan, buddy..you just seem to have too much time on your hands...you need a hobby.

[Classic Finn]

Alan those are cute...

Classic Finn

[ALAN GEDDES]

I spend so much time on real tears that the only time I have left is my little tears. If I didn't have cash restrictions I would build every strange design that people have come up with.

[mikeschn]

Alan,

Will you build a Roswell? Pretty please?



Mike...

[ALAN GEDDES]

I need a source for really Cheap foam for the funky fenders. I believe the ideal stuff is the green florists foam as you can disolve after glassing. And it is expensive in large pieces. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I really like the one angib drew up.

[dwgriff1]

A friend, who has been building airplanes suggests using cheap foam to get the shape, then covering it with a thin layer of dry wall cement, sand that to contour and glass on top of that.

The foam is just an easy forming material. It could be plaster, wood, or cow manure.

Making a mold from that foam/drywall mud combination would be a lot of work, but so would finishing the surface without a mold.

dave

[ALAN GEDDES]

Mike: Come spring I will build it but it will be a bit more Starwars/stealth looking. I want to try foam insulation sheets with ply ribbing and cover with resin and cloth. Flat black paint and dark tinted plexiglass windows with gull wing doors maybe. Will build a model soon.

[apratt]

I have used the cheap white foam and painted it with water base house paint then fibreglassed over that. The water base paint kept the resin from melting the foam.

[Micro469]

A friend, who has been building airplanes suggests using cheap foam to get the shape, then covering it with a thin layer of dry wall cement, sand that to contour and glass on top of that.

The foam is just an easy forming material. It could be plaster, wood, or cow manure.

Making a mold from that foam/drywall mud combination would be a lot of work, but so would finishing the surface without a mold.

dave

The fiberglass would then be used as the mold right? You would then wax the inside and make the final product... is this how it's done??