body stretching

[Nitro RC Basher]

well when this https://www.rcnitrotalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58201 is done its going to need a body. I'm thing a stretched H2 will do nicely. how would i stretch a body.

 

[flandersander]

Maybe put in your oven for a little while and hand stretch it. I can't think og any other way to stretch it.

 

[Lessen]

I've never heard of anybody ever trying to stretch a body. I can't imagine attempting it w/o completely ruining one. You could always add a mid section from a second body but I don't know how you'd keep all 3 pieces together. If you did a steel panel and rivot paint scheme that would hide it pretty well.

 

[Nitro RC Basher]

steel panel and rivot paint scheme

on a limo... ill think of something

 

[Lessen]

on a limo... ill think of something

On a Hummer.

You dont' have to like my opinion but it's certainly not necessary to reply as if it's beneath you.

 

[marauder]

http://www.warmplastic.com/index.html

Ya' feel me?

 

[Lessen]

http://www.warmplastic.com/index.html

Ya' feel me?

I wonder if they would be willing to take on the job considering the trademarking and all that legal jazz.

 

[marauder]

I may have posted the wrong link, one of the sites I was on sold equipment to vacuum form your own lids. I will have to look again when I have the time. I just found it on google searching "Vacuum form lexan".

 

[561design]

The best thing to do as suggested is to piece two bodies together. Don't heat any body because it'll deform and you'll never get the shape back.

 

[Nitro RC Basher]

or i could just make it out of fiberglass

 

[561design]

You could. But fiberglass is pretty messy to work with. It's also not flexible, so if you crash. More than likely it'll destroy all your hard work.

 

[Lessen]

If you made a vacuum former (lots of homemade vacu-form instructions available on the net), I think you would have a good shot at a very nice stretch if you made your own mold using the stock body as a starting point. I've always wanted to try to make my own bodies but have yet to take the plunge into building my own vacuum former.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

You do know that you can buy some bodies pre-made for an extended chassis right? It seems like that even if you needed it to be stretched longer, with one of those bodies you would be able to use more original body material and less patch panel. I don't know who makes the extended body, but there was a guy at the LHS the other day who had ordered one for a T-Maxx he built with an extended chassis.

 

[flandersander]

That would be sweet... a Stretch limo with losi zombie tires... and an actual limo body... a guy can dream though... a man can dream.

 

[Lessen]

I think he project is significantly longer than the extended bodies that are available. My T-Maxx has an extended body on it but's it doesn't look stretched.I think he's going for something significantly longer than that.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

Yeah I thought so too, but my thinking was that if you start with a stretched body, then you'll have a lil bit more original body to work with, and less patch panel to fill in. That's the logic we using when doing boy ork on our hot rods anway. No matter what size the patch panel is, we always trin the panel to fit the original sheetmetal that's good, rather than cutting out the original sheetmetal to fit the patch panel, if that makes any sense.