Virtual Plastic – Porsche 962C – Main Body Complete
Franky, even I’m surprised with how well this is going. The basic body is done, and now it’s time to sub-divide the whole thing and start adding details. I was able to use tsBevel to create panel line breaks for the side windows, and a slight joggle for the windshield. This really shows me that … Read more
Virtual Plastic – Porsche 962C – Start of Surface Modeling
Continuing my little Tamiya Porsche 962C “virtual plastic” build, I spent a little time at the end of Friday working on the surface modeling. I started (Basil this is for you!) by projecting a line onto the front fender. Project is one of those handful of Rhino commands that works on stl meshes. There’s not … Read more
Giles G-200 Progress – Intersection Fairings
Moving along nicely now with the Giles G-200. I realized that before I put any more time into the cowling, I needed to have all the rest of the intersection fairings finished up. Really, the most complicated part, topologically speaking, is the intersection fairings. Since the topology of the fairings must flow into the cowl, … Read more
Fun with EXAscan: Porsche 962 Model Scan
Lately, for no particular reason, I’ve been really digging the Porsche 956/962 Le Mans racers of the 80′s and 90′s. Fancy that. Me. Into cars. Who knew? So, I got a Tamiya kit of the 1990 Repsol Brun 962C. Instead of building the plastic model, I thought it would be way more fun to build … Read more
Issac Theatre Royal Plaster Restoration
I love this blog, I really do. And part of the reason why I love it, is because it connects me with all sorts of people, all over the world, doing cool stuff. I was driving down the highway one day, and my phone rang, and this guy said “Hello there, my name is Corin, … Read more
Giles G-200 – Gear Leg Fairing Tooling Design
Making the overall shape for the gear leg fairings, as I described here, is really about 1/3 of the way to making the molds. Granted, from my perspective, it’s the most fun part of the design process, but there is a lot of work that goes into taking that macro shape and turning it into … Read more
Finally, some Giles G-200 progress. Finite Trailing Edge Thickness Airfoils in Rhino3D
Now that we’ve got some projects cleared off, I’ve finally had time to return back to the Giles G-200. It’s amazing to me how when you come back to a project after working on some truly difficult stuff, suddenly the things that were so hard on that earlier project are now much easier. Such … Read more
Here comes MAXshot!
We’re very excited to announce that today we placed our order for the MAXshot photogrammetry add-on for our Creaform EXAscan. What does this mean exactly? Well if you check out this previous post on the demo we had on the MAXshot you’ll see that the MAXshot is a range extending option. This does some really … Read more
Carbon Fiber Cup Holders – Painted and Delivered
The cup holders came back from Santa Cruz Auto Body, and I must say they look fantastic. They did an excellent job clear coating them – we were pretty ecstatic to see how well they came out. They’ve gone off to the upholstery shop to be installed, not sure if we’ll get any pics back … Read more
VariEze N388DT – Start of Engine Mods
It’s been a crazy few weeks of some really cool projects, much to the detriment of this blog. Some of these will be sharable here in the future, but for now, they are under wraps. However, at the end of this week, James had some time to start modding the VairEze O-200 a bit. There … Read more
