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Plans

I started with a set of blue prints of a Plus 8 that someone posted on the emog discussion group a few years ago.

blueprint

In looking at the wheels available in the Lee Valley catalogue the only ones that had the correct looking thickness to diameter ratio were the 2 1/2" diameter ones, so that set the scale.

Using a photo editor program, I cut out the four views in the blueprint into separate pictures, then scaled up the side view until the printed copy had wheels 2 1/2" across. Then I scaled up the rest of the views the same amount.

Using these diagrams as guides I made three templates from some scrap acrylic. Template "A" is the wing/body line, "B" is the profile of the top of the body, but at the front it stops above the headlights, "C" is the top view of the side of the body where it meets the wings. The templates are drawn on a 1/4" grid.

templates

Note that the templates do no exactly fit the blueprints. After cutting a set of templates from the blueprints I felt that the front wings were too thin and, therefore; would be too delicate made of wood. I fattened them up to 1/4" thick on my printout of the blueprints and then drew and cut a new chassis template to keep a 1/8" of wood around the wheel well. This pushes the nose of the car forward a little so the top profile template was also modified. But for the side template I just pushed it forward 3/16" when using it. This thins the rear deck a little, if you like, you can stretch the nose of the side template forward keeping the same width at the front and having a shallower taper to the bonnet.



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