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[Bedfordcrazy]

Hi Gary, I have been looking at your interior panels, are they a factory plastic or fibreglass roof and cab panels, or do the pics just look like a vacume finish ? like the van, lot of work gone into it.

George..............

[ben]

fibreglass i think

[Sundownernz]

Hey George,

Re magazines, there's 61 of them from the first to last. Awesome set.

The panels are all custom made using a mix of ply, foam and fibreglass. Dead easy to do. Cut and fit the ply to whatever your working on, say a door panel. Get some insulation foam from a supplier. Forman Insulation over here have a huge range but in the type I use there are three grades: Soft - brown, Medium - green and hard - blue. I use green. This is glued onto wherever you want to form a shape to whatever thickness you want. Once the glue is dry, sand it to the shape you want. Blow off the dust with an air gun then I fibreglass it using Dynal cloth (fine fibreglass cloth). this folds around curves really well. Then I soak the cloth with resin and roll out all the air bubbles with a fibreglass roller. Once dry I give it a second coat of resin. Once that's gone off I sand it and give the whole thing a skim coat of bog then sand the whole lot smooth. The colour finish is just Dulux 101 interior house paint, semi gloss, applied with a roller which gives a slight stippled finish and that's about it.

There are a number of other ways of doing this. Complicated large shapes can be done by forming the basic shape in mdf, covering with speaker cloth then fibreglassing the cloth, and bogging it from there.

Hope this helps.
Garry.

[weasil]