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[IndyTom]

Coming in loud and clear.

Tom

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[Martinup]

mmm?

[mckenney56]

OK. I'll pipe in here and give my "how to put pics in". Right click on the camera icon under YOUR avatar picture in one of the posts you have made. Click on "open in new tab" or "open in new window" (which ever you prefer). In that new tab or window is your gallery, click on the picture your want to put in your post. At the bottom click once in the Image-URL box to highlight it. Right click it and click copy. In your post at the spot you want the picture, click the Img button at the top. In between the two image tags right click and click paste. You should see something like this when you click preview at the bottom of the post.

Cool design you've got started there. I like the curved top. I can't wait to see how you skin the compound curve.

[KCStudly]

You gonna use solar to separate the hydrogen from the water? Or good old fashion coal?

How are you going to manufacture the plastic for the solar panels? You know, so as to keep that foot print down. (Just kidding; I get frustrated by the reality of these issues, too.)

Compound curved build looks really neat!!! Must have used a bunch of ply to cut all those ribs from.
Did you do it by jig saw, template and router, or CNC router?

Are you going to use foam, canvas and glue to get the compound curves filled in? Check the Foamie section.

Re Images: Once you single click on the image you want from your gallery, single click on the BBCode line (the [album] bracketed line with the image number, it should highlight the whole line) then copy. You can then just paste that directly into your post composition page. (Mike, Thanks for making this much easier!)

Should look like this (without the extra spaces) when you do.
[ album]88681[/album ]

Best to paste this on its own line without any text so that it doesn't extend or wrap the page.

For long url's you can modify the url link to shorten them like this: [ url= original url ] new description [ /url] again without the extra spaces (credit to MadJack for sharing this one).

[Martiangod]

Them compound curves look great, I'd head over to the speaker builder sites, the guys that build the big weird stuff for cars, thety use stretchy sweat shirt material and resin to do them complex shapes.
Gonna look awesome if you pull it off

[Martinup]

mmm?

[Martiangod]

Man that is going to be a complex roof to get smooth



The vinyl and TPO systems are good for curves and flat, but the compound curves are an issue, I used a TPO roof and have a compound curve at the front and had issues.
Might as well show the bad as well as the good...lol
Going to have to do a slice, overlap and center trim to pull the wrinkles out



An EPDM rubber will lay on compound curves, it will stretch some.
https://dicorproducts.com/catalog/roof-products-for-manufacturers/membranes/brite-ply-epdm-rubber-roofing/
The trick is going to be getting a wood skin smooth through all the transitionsYou will have to cut panks pie shaped, possibly steaming, like building a boat.
Aluminum is a good option, using overlapping seams to foam the radia.
I think glass is the way to go
If you search youtube for methods, lot of the music is annoying, this one shows good because of the fabric he used





Get your shape with the polyester fabric, resin it, then build up with matting, sand and paint = waterproof

The compound curves the speaker builders are acheiving are unreal.

I'm betting yours ends up looking sort of convertable topish, which is kinda cool IMO


On a spare no expense build, doing the stretcdh and glass then then paint, reinforce from inside, glassing the spars, or your in BC, lots of boat builders, have the inside of the roof spprayed with glass chop, then have foam guys spray it from inside for insulation and reinforcment

[Martinup]

mmm?

[KCStudly]

Light weight ceiling spackle is your friend for smoothing rough foam.

[Martiangod]

Martin, heres a youtube video that may really help you with the compound curves on the roof.
These guys are magitians with foam




This guy has a whole series building this car,

There are rasps for foam and airboarding

Hope this helps you

[Martinup]

mmm?

[Martinup]

mmm?