I discovered this youtube channel some time ago Literally looking this sort of thing up since I do this in smaller scale with less detail using turkey foil. However I decided a little while ago to try my hand at scaling it up and building a model car out of aluminium tooling foil as closely to the real thing as I could. I landed myself the cheapest model of a car I like I could find, a 1:18 scale first gen Ford Focus I can make moulds using. and I can think of no better place to ask than here, the fanbase of a game based around cars and wrecking them. So, mind helping me compile a lot of reference images of the naked unibody of this car? Interiors of rally cars, empty engine bays, radiator mounts, maintenence diagrams, pictures of these things crashed, stripped out or otherwise in some way taken apart I have some already but the more I have the more accurate I can be. I have started, but I'll show something when I have something worth showing off! Cheers. Examples of the sort of thing I'm doing below.
I own one but I'm not sure I could get you more in depth pictures than are available online. If you need any random pictures that you can't find, I could get them probably.
That is so cool, back in my scale modelling days I always imagined doing something like that. I imagine in the modern age of available 3d printing, one could make miniature forms or even stamping dies to press out the foil!
Should be able to source some CAD drawings of the unibody through my collision repair network. Not entirely sure if I can submit a request for them since we haven't had a mk1 Focus in for a while, but right now I can offer you some extremely nerdy datasheet diagram measurements of the car if you're interested.
Oooh, super secret black market collision repair diagram espoionage! Color me interested. I'm monitoring this thread.
Exactly the sort of reference I need, thankyou! Appreciated. That would be my dream. I'll have to stick to making resin forms and hand tooling the parts at the moment though . You would be my hero! and if you can secure drawings, you'd be my god.
Settle down, they're only exciting if you lose sleep at night wondering how many spot welds an ACV36 Camry uses to secure its left hand tail lamp panel... Not sure if these will help at all, but it's something...
Just curious, why use aluminum foil? Thin annealed copper or tin sheet or something might be more malleable before it tears, and easily solderable.
You need some plastic claymaking tools do to it nicely, but you form aluminium foil around a mould for each body panel. Currently I'm starting where this guy did, developing proper doors. --- Post updated --- to be fair, I'm gonna end up working on both projects. One because I want to see how adept I am at reconstructing things, the other because 3D printing's just going to give me easy geometry to work with.
