That has to be one of the coolest things I’ve seen this week. I’m building a fiberglass jet right now and I might try this for the canopy. That was awesome thanks
This does work if one is as patient and precise as you seem to be, I actually prefer it to vacuum because you have more control over the finer details of the shape - unless your vac is high end. I’d love to see more of the Extra 330SC, it’s one of my favorites
That was some nice work and ingenuity! I’ve vacuum formed a few in my day but that was absolutely fun to watch! AND you didn’t have to dye it for the color you wanted. 👍
Now you got me thinking about model boat hulls . Im into boats in bottles [ its a mental disorder ] and theyre getting bigger , You could form some pretty big hull sections ,paint them ,roll them up and stuff them in the bottle , I like it .
I appreciate the video transition at the beginning when you faded the plane plans, Not to stress you, but I think it would make following up much easier on complex project
Very nice work, congrats. As a suggestion I would have used balsa wood to make the work easier (unless you plan to reuse the plug to make a lot of canopies).
Excellent, well produced video as always. One word of caution: if the plastic is heated beyond a certain point, and it comes into contact with skin, it will bond, and the only way to remove it is to remove the skin! A friend was making RC car bodies using sheet plastic held in a rectangular frame while he heated it. It slipped, and tried to catch it. He spent weeks with his fingers attached to a frame of metal rods screwed to the bones while multiple skin-grafts healed. Hideous experience! :o(
Man when you were using that razor I was having an anxiety attack. In high school art class a girl working next to me was cutting something in a similar fashion when the material she was cutting gave way under the pressure and blade cut her all the way across her other hand. Brought back a horrible vision!
