Monday, August 1, 2016

Cut'em yourself. OUCH!

So I didn't get around to updating on here that I decided to cut my own legs and skins.  Printed out the plans for them on plotter.  attached the skins to some polystyrene  bought from my friend Joel before he moved to Florida for work.  Turns out the 1mm polystyrene is easier to cut than I anticipated.   Its pretty hard on the fingers but it works.  I would up cutting every single panel out for my front skins which I realized after the fact was WAY overkill.   I'll wind up re-cutting a new front set one of these days.  I have to say I think they they look great though.

Tried to cut the Box legs from Frank Pirz as he allows you to download the plans for free if you want to cut them yourself.  Let me know agree whole heartedly with Frank.  I don't know why anyone would want to go through that torture.  1mm styrene cuts pretty easily.  Anything else is really difficult especially if its not an outside edge where the plastic has somewhere to move when its being cut.   I gave up finally when I realized I wasn't able to cut the notch out of the side for the under shoulder details.   Its possible to do this but WAY more work and pain than I was willing to put into it.




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