As I wrote in my introduction I am here on this forum to hopefully enhance my workshop skills
And I don’t know if this is the right place to open a thread with a lot of pictures and only a little workshop activity.
But it is about my effort to build a car model in the scale 1 to 5. I will give it a start and if there is interest I maybe can tell the whole story.
A number of years ago I bought myself a lathe followed by a small milling machine. I practiced a little and after a while I was looking for a kind of project in which I could use both machines.
I was already familiar with CAD software. But only 2D but then someone persuaded me that I better could change to 3D. So I plunged into the 3D world. And than I decided that the next project should be a model car.
First things first. I did a search on the web and in books to find reasonable technical drawings I could use as a starting point for a kind of reverse engineering.
From those data and a little common sense I probably create a 1 to 1 scale 3D drawing.
I found a target. A Porsche 917 racing car from the late sixties of the past century.
I split up the project in more or less three parts.
A) The outer hull ( glass reinforced polyester ).
B) The frame(tubing) with the wheels and so on.
C) The engine with the drive train.
So far the idea.
Rijk
![917top_zps3d87d555.jpg 917top_zps3d87d555.jpg](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/117/117255-7370f319c75108b29a2698bfbfdbe4c5.jpg)
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And I don’t know if this is the right place to open a thread with a lot of pictures and only a little workshop activity.
But it is about my effort to build a car model in the scale 1 to 5. I will give it a start and if there is interest I maybe can tell the whole story.
A number of years ago I bought myself a lathe followed by a small milling machine. I practiced a little and after a while I was looking for a kind of project in which I could use both machines.
I was already familiar with CAD software. But only 2D but then someone persuaded me that I better could change to 3D. So I plunged into the 3D world. And than I decided that the next project should be a model car.
First things first. I did a search on the web and in books to find reasonable technical drawings I could use as a starting point for a kind of reverse engineering.
From those data and a little common sense I probably create a 1 to 1 scale 3D drawing.
I found a target. A Porsche 917 racing car from the late sixties of the past century.
I split up the project in more or less three parts.
A) The outer hull ( glass reinforced polyester ).
B) The frame(tubing) with the wheels and so on.
C) The engine with the drive train.
So far the idea.
Rijk
![917top_zps3d87d555.jpg 917top_zps3d87d555.jpg](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/117/117255-7370f319c75108b29a2698bfbfdbe4c5.jpg)
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![917def13_zps5b788139.jpg 917def13_zps5b788139.jpg](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/117/117259-7370f319c75108b29a2698bfbfdbe4c5.jpg)
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