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What would be the advantage to vac forming your own kit?
Daniel :
What scale are you working in? If it's in a larger or smaller scale than Model railroads for instance, You can always fudge parts from Toys. T.B.
modelmaker66 What would be the advantage to vac forming your own kit?
Vac forming parts can be useful to make lightweight contoured parts. For example an aircraft wing would be heavy if it were made out of solid laminations of sheet plastic. But if you carve a master and vac over it, not only can you capture the curvature of the airfoil, you can easily impart washout during the assembly process rather than having to incorporate it into the master.
The thin nature of vac parts make them easy to trim to fit as well.
I vac formed some sponsons for a project and don’t think I could have made it any other way.
While resin casting and 3-D printing dominate these days, old fashioned vac forming can offer a cheap, low tech solution.
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Tanker - Builder Daniel : What scale are you working in? If it's in a larger or smaller scale than Model railroads for instance, You can always fudge parts from Toys. T.B.
Daniel (seefivein) hasn't posted here in twelve years.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Ha ha, I didn’t notice the OP’s posting date either!
Lot of old threads popping up lately.
Chad
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