Today I went at it and did some "cardboard moulding" to create a suitable cover for the buggy.
First I built a frame that had the same measurements as the top of the buggy and added in a piece of fiberglas rod from a kiddy bike flag to create a counter curve in the middle. I did this to avoid water poodles building up on the cover...
I had three sheets of 80x100cm 1mm cardboard ready. Before putting them on the frame I made them soaking wet. Like this the become somewhat moldable, but one has to be very carefull, as they also rip apart very easy. This fact will come in handy later on in the progress.
So here the first layer of wet cardboard is on the frame. You can already see, that the rear corners will give me some (expected) trouble...
While I let the cardboard dry a bit, I made this little ply wedges from some leftover scraps.
The wedges will give me some nice fins on the trunk cover. It's a 50ties something buggy, so it needs fins!
With the fins in place I gave the first layer of carboard a coat of thinned glue and then applied the second layer of cardboard.
A little bit of ripping and molding later it looks like this:
And the final layer of cardboard is one:
Now I will have to let it sit there and dry. The weather is nice and warm, so this should be ready to finish up by tomorrow...
First I built a frame that had the same measurements as the top of the buggy and added in a piece of fiberglas rod from a kiddy bike flag to create a counter curve in the middle. I did this to avoid water poodles building up on the cover...
I had three sheets of 80x100cm 1mm cardboard ready. Before putting them on the frame I made them soaking wet. Like this the become somewhat moldable, but one has to be very carefull, as they also rip apart very easy. This fact will come in handy later on in the progress.
So here the first layer of wet cardboard is on the frame. You can already see, that the rear corners will give me some (expected) trouble...
While I let the cardboard dry a bit, I made this little ply wedges from some leftover scraps.
The wedges will give me some nice fins on the trunk cover. It's a 50ties something buggy, so it needs fins!
With the fins in place I gave the first layer of carboard a coat of thinned glue and then applied the second layer of cardboard.
A little bit of ripping and molding later it looks like this:
And the final layer of cardboard is one:
Now I will have to let it sit there and dry. The weather is nice and warm, so this should be ready to finish up by tomorrow...
