Time to clay....

Today the laser cutting was done, and so I began to cut the 6mm core. Which is now also finished.

Above image shows the bus waiting for window shaping, some gluing all followed by some oil based clay. Hopefully it should be mostly built tomorrow...

cutting update

Just a quick shot of the current state of the laser cutting, almost all the contours have been cut. When Monday arrives it will be time for gluing, sanding and sculpting......

Laser Time

The above images show the sections the bus has been split int0, 164 in total. The acrylic I have chosen has variations in thickness ranging from 3mm to 3.4mm. To combat this the slices were taken every 3.2mm Hopefully a negligible amount of length will be loosed/gained.

With a one hour laser period, 1/5 of the bus was cut out so for more hours and construction will begin.

In The Beginning

Plans and Planning

I have recently received the plans for the 2012 bus in the format of (Auto CAD cross sections), (3ds Max model) and (Digital Renders)
















So far I have split the model in sections, allowing me to export the shape into Rhino (NURBS modelling program) this is now being split into roughly 150 3mm slices. These will be laser cut glues togeather and used as a base to begin the construction.

-more info coming soon....