Car mold

Hello,

Just a question : do you think (and if yes how) if it is possible to make mold from a complete car at once ? Goal is to have a one piece poly.

since each piece has special latchs, hooks, pins etc. no. i would think not. you would have to take each part off and make it. also, some parts of a car dont come off… =| and you would have to make your own latchs for it.

As long as your car plug has no negatives in it then its possible. But in that case you will have a very bland looking car…like those in NASCAR.

Your better off keying 5 or 6 moulds together. That way you can still have a one piece body (with plenty of curves), but several moulds to ease the pain of demolding.

Here’s a photo of my full size VW Bug body mold from the last Herbie movie:

Those first two pix were so small Jim, my eyes hurt now,lol.

Sorry, the photos were from eBay where I first learn a buddy of mine had it for sale!

Thats really cool!

How many pieces?

6x mold parts without the 2 per each door and the rear deck lid too.

Wow, did you make the molds and composite body Werksberg?

I like how the body turned out, very nice.

No, but I might be making a solid roof mold insert instead of the rag top so the drag racers can use them…

maybe make an oval window mold :smiley: or modify the mold to make it an oval window . I know… everyone has an idea lol.

I already have a split rear window mold (you may have caught me on Monster Garage delivering my PC split window kit to them…) that I sell those parts to the drag racers which moves the rear window higher up in the body for better air flow to the rear wing…;):wink:

Werks… you never said you are famous :cool:

What did they build with your composite bug body? A racer or some monstrosity?

IMPRESSIVE !

Got more details for my project now.
I need to make a one piece male mold a of a small car.
But the mold will need to support 150 °C as polyethelene thermoforming will be used for producing the parts.
I can CNC (5axis) the whole male mold but wich material would you use for the mold ??

Aluminuim tooling would be ideal for this type of project, especially as you have access to CNC machining facilities.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041102011657/http://www.ddrmotorsport.com/picture_process.html

Here’s a photo gallery of how some guys made a mold…

They didn’t use my Composite Bug body (didn’t have the mold at that time) but my PC (Lexan) race car windows for the Bug which they had dragged it out of a pond that had been there for a couple of years.

The one white Bug body will be made into an electric, remote controlled “Herbie” for “Make a Wish” foundation shows…:cool: