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my word, how the smaller things can trip you up.
I've spent half an hour of my lunch on the steering wheel and trying to figure out how the side skirts go together (another fantastically vague instruction)
The front and rear aero is now attached. Interestingly, the rear spoiler end-plates are contact joints, no tabs or flaps - made sticking them in place and even
The steering wheel is 12mm across, 9mm tall, and about 1mm deep.
I've spent half an hour of my lunch on the steering wheel and trying to figure out how the side skirts go together (another fantastically vague instruction)
The front and rear aero is now attached. Interestingly, the rear spoiler end-plates are contact joints, no tabs or flaps - made sticking them in place and even
The steering wheel is 12mm across, 9mm tall, and about 1mm deep.
One wheel completed.
not actually as hard as I thought it was going to be - the way it's structured actually helps with the construction - there's an inner spoked section (3 parts), that fits inside a tube - this also ensures the tube is circular. The Tyre is in three parts (tread, and 2 sidewalls), and this mounts to the central tube.
The entire wheel is 3cm diameter, and just over 1 tall
(edit, slightly clearer picture)
Only 3 more to do. Hopefully they'll go together a little quicker - this one stands me at about 40 mins.
not actually as hard as I thought it was going to be - the way it's structured actually helps with the construction - there's an inner spoked section (3 parts), that fits inside a tube - this also ensures the tube is circular. The Tyre is in three parts (tread, and 2 sidewalls), and this mounts to the central tube.
The entire wheel is 3cm diameter, and just over 1 tall
(edit, slightly clearer picture)
Only 3 more to do. Hopefully they'll go together a little quicker - this one stands me at about 40 mins.
Edited by shortar53 on Tuesday 7th October 12:56
MitchT said:
I can strongly recommend this book for hours of car related papercraft fun. Only thing with mine is, it's pretty much shot to pieces as you have to push pins through the pages into card underneath to create reference points. I'll have to buy a new copy!
Wow, I think my dad got me a book in the same series on making card buildings for model railways. That must have ben in about 1975.
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