First panels - steap learning curve

Over a long period, I hav been studying some very good and instructive youtube videos by Wray Shelin from the ProShaper Workshop , Now I simply had to get on with the bodywork of the SSX.

I needed to get hands on this work, and the experience is, that only by getting hands on, you will increase your skills. So it is with TIG welding aluminium, and so it is as well in the descipline of shaping sheet metal using only some dollys, hammers and an english wheel.

Years ago, I bought a new wheeling mashine from Justin Baker in Kettering, and only now I can use it for the first time apart from some test wheeling I made some years ago.

It works perfectly for my use, and the learning curve is steep, but again, you only earn the skills by doing it in practice.

I decided to make the air intake for the radiators first. It was a combination of hammering over a wooden dolly suplemented with some shrinking and wheeling of the larger front parts. Next item to form I decided should be the continuation which is the front part of what would be the bonnet on a normal car, but on the SSX this part is an integrated part of the rest of the body. Radiators will be removed from beneath the car.*

Basically this part is done by shrinking the edges on almost all sites, and wheeling /treching the center part of the sheet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

more to follow...