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Spam cans to beer cans - the ramblings of a drunk!


sleeper

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In my recent blog about experimenting with different materials to produce roofs for coaches or covered vans you might recall I cut some blanks from first a Deodorant can and then a beer can. If you haven't read that blog I recommend you do so first.

If you remember I talked about producing a coach roof from several blanks, but first I had to dispose of the beer some way so I would have some empty cans.

Well I can now report that (hic) I have some, whoops! :stinker:

 

I cut up the cans and laminated the blanks as before then joined those two blanks end to end with Araldite making sure the ends were filed square first. For the third layer I cut them up shorter so I had to use three blanks to create one layer these were all laminated using contact adhesive as before. The result was a length of curved Aluminium which was quite acceptable to make in to a roof at least 61 scale feet long.

 

Recently I've been trying to get into the 21st century by learning how to use Inkscape, there's an excellent tutorial by Mike Trice in the 3D &Cad drawing section and I've been working my way through it.

I was messing around one evening trying to produce something, a covered wagon. but when it came to drawing the ends I was flummoxed as to how to form the arc of the roof. Due to consuming vast quantities of canned beer I'd forgotten entirely about the circle/ellipse tool and so formed it using the Bezier curve tool and dragging the nodes into an arc.

In doing so I needed to know the height of the top of the arc over the line across the top of the sides so I measured about 4 different kit built models to get an average. One of them was my recently finished Mink G van, (see the next blog for pictures) :sungum:

It was then that I came to realise the circumference of a can of Brut deodorant is a wee bit too small and results in the aforementioned arc being a bit too tight, never mind eh!

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The join looks diabolical in the third photo but in reality only needs a small amount of filler.

 

cheers for now

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