Lovely Flamingo

Just to keep you interested, and yes the title is relevant. I'm using mainly Rhino 4.0 for my CAD work. It renders the images I have been posting so far and doesnt do a bad job.

I just installed a new renderer (called Flamingo) which does a rather better job, and I thought the result looked good enough to post as a "new" development. Really its just the same with a shiny new cover. But it looks nice so what the hell. By the way, I am open to suggestions on the colour for the wheel arches.

Other progress continues, but on boring things like hinges and waterproofing. Very dull!

Instrument Panel

I did promise to show a photo of the panel fresh off the CNC. Here it is, though I think I will modify it, I was trying to keep the same overall shape as the actual LS7 panel, but to fit in the 12" screen makes it too big and bulky. I'll slim it down a bit

Excuse my bored look. The flash on my camera takes ages to charge! :-)

CAD work a'plenty

Detailed design work continues, boring though it is. Actually, it's not that boring, but does take time. The overall design is pretty much finalised, so now I need to make sure the whole thing will actually fit together.

The area we will be covering in this episode boys and girls, is the steps/ramp/sides of the trailer. As you will note, the previous problem of a wheel just sticking through the side of the opened door is gone. It will now be covered mostly by the steps, and partly by a small door which needs to be there so that when open, the wheel has a normal wheel-well sides space surrounding it.

The pics are a little tricky to interperate at the moment since I have yet to differentiate between different panels, so it just looks like one big white sheet. Still, it gives an idea.

Also the trailer now has a more sensible front, removing the likelyhood of chopping people's legs off if they happen to be in the way. And it looks better too.

More soon . . .

Quickie

Just a quick note. Currently nutting out design details, so not much to show at the moment. Will be running a piece of MDF through the CNC machine at uni later today to see how my first go at the instrument panel will look. Will post photos when it's done.