Went to work shaping the wheel pants today.
A big hat tip to Pete / Rocketman. The plans only have a front view and side view of the wheel pants.
He took the time to take some pics of his pants (top and bot view) and send them to me. Thank You Pete.
I made a front view profile template off the drawings. I then used a belt sander with 60 grit and a surform to rough shape them.
Using the template to check often to make sure to shape evenly and not over sand. I roughed them down until I had about a 1/4 inch left to remove then stopped. I then made a sanding block from template and sanded the top shape to profile.
Then used a sanding jig to sand the top profile to shape.
The bottom profile was shaped with a 1 inch round over with only 13/16 of the round over cutting. This gave the arched bottom shape.
I stopped the RO shy of the front and back and then tapered those parts in by sanding.
At this point I was beat. been sanding for about 6 hours. I was also overjoyed with how they looked.
Took a shower then sat down and took another look at the photos Pete sent. Oh Poo
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The noses are to blunt. The front profile and side profile are right but the noses should be more slender left to right.
More work needs to be done. Have about 10 hrs total so far in the pants.
Oh well, the heavy lifting is done. Should be short work to true them in. But not today.
Kevin