I went out and bought a heat gun to make a canopy for one of my model planes, and I got to thinking: will Evergreen white sheet styrene soften similarly to Squadron Clear Thermaform (which is styrene, not PETG) when heated the same way? Or will it shrink, pucker, and distort into a useless mess?
I'm thinking if the white stuff will do this, then I want to try heating it up and pressing it between a positive and negative Plaster-of-Paris fender die... sort of like the way 1:1 fenders are stamped out of sheet metal... then buy one of those '36 Fiat dragster kits and press a set of fenders for it so I can "reverse mod" it to build it stock. I could also hot-press a hardtop for my Lindberg '38 Cord kit to make it look like Moe Shrevnitz' taxi in "the Shadow".
BTW making an original shape is not difficult if you cut and sand it out of poplar or some other even-textured wood... then rub the original wooden positive with Vaseline, pour your plaster negative around it, then bake it dry in the oven and pour a new positive into the plaster mold using molten lead... this will give you a 2-piece mold which can be used for pressing one or two sets of bulged parts. It worked great for my airplane canopy.
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/982983.aspx
Richard Attwood Manny Ayulo Luca Badoer Giancarlo Baghetti Julian Bailey
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