1936 BMW 328 custom roadster

My dear new friends down under, you wanted more of my builds . This was an old Heller kit that i want to make low,fat and fast.












Torgny from Sweden

Absolutely Wicked!!! ......they've gotta be the fatest spoked rims I've ever seen,

keep 'em coming Torgny

that is awesome! great concept and execution...

how did you get the styrene to conform to the guard profile.
i have tried warm water ,bending & gluing as you go,but nothing seems to be working for me.
any ideas.
john

not what I was expecting to see thats for sure. Awesome work!

Now that's fat, very cool.

Awesome

awesome... love it! top stuff..

That's wicked Torgny - I was expecting to see the original classic car but am pleasantly surprised by your customised version. Looks something like the current "Morgan Aero Super Sports" only better.

nagasaki wrote:how did you get the styrene to conform to the guard profile.
i have tried warm water ,bending & gluing as you go,but nothing seems to be working for me.
any ideas.
john

Just bending and gluing,that´s it .But you got to hold it steady until the glue dried, With your hands, its really difficult to put clamps and get it right. Time feels veeeery long when you wait for the glue to dries.Here on the forum i can´t say all the words that i told the car when i was doing the gluing...........John ,just keep on trying.

Torgny

Lovely job Torgny! That is one low slung mean ride mate!

tezza43 wrote:That's wicked Torgny - I was expecting to see the original classic car but am pleasantly surprised by your customised version. Looks something like the current "Morgan Aero Super Sports" only better.

I think Tezza has has said it all great looking build

Kynan wrote:

tezza43 wrote:That's wicked Torgny - I was expecting to see the original classic car but am pleasantly surprised by your customised version. Looks something like the current "Morgan Aero Super Sports" only better.

I think Tezza has has said it all great looking build

+1

That is great. Good work.

To get styrene sheet to stay curved i've had some luck taping it to a piece of steel tube (IIRC I used motorcycle handle bars) with insulating tape and leaving it for a couple of weeks. It will spring open a bit on removal of the tape but does retain a nice constant curve. That would have worked on the rear 'guards but as for the fronts...

I've found that styrene sheet and strips have a grain, like metal. If you remember back to your days of metal work at school, making the metal funnel or toasting iron, you needed to break the grain so the metal didn't get kinks in it.. With sheet or strips of styrene I hold each end, lay it flat on my bench then pull it towards the edge, the end that is over the edge then gets pulled down towards the floor, so you are going at right angles, keep doing this and you will feel it get more workable and it tends to keep it's shape easier. If anyone want some pics I can organise something. It would also work over a pipe in a vise. Hope this makes sense.

hi tubman,
any chance of a tutorial for mugs like me on the above ??
please !!!
john

I'll see what I can do. Packing up at the moment, moving into my new house in a couple of weeks. If you don't see anything on it in the next little while send me a PM to remind me.

Tubman wrote:I've found that styrene sheet and strips have a grain, like metal. If you remember back to your days of metal work at school, making the metal funnel or toasting iron, you needed to break the grain so the metal didn't get kinks in it.. With sheet or strips of styrene I hold each end, lay it flat on my bench then pull it towards the edge, the end that is over the edge then gets pulled down towards the floor, so you are going at right angles, keep doing this and you will feel it get more workable and it tends to keep it's shape easier. If anyone want some pics I can organise something. It would also work over a pipe in a vise. Hope this makes sense.

I do similar. I drag the piece of sheet I want to curve over the edge of a metal ruler. It's like when you used to make strips of paper go curly when doing arts & crafts at primary school (or was that only me?).