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Building a Sculpture: Earlier today I saw a similar idea to this on the internet for the new regulation cars and so I thought that I should give it a go and make one myself. I however don’t have access to the laser equipment and metal bending that the original creator uses and so decided to 3D print the item. This product will be relatively simple but it definitely challenged me in thinking in multiple dimensions with it being modelled as flat sheets that I then went and bent later with the intention of printing flat and then either eyeballing the bending with a heat gun or also making a former - probably just going to eyeball it. The modelling was reasonably enjoyable. When modelling I started with the base plate to get a sense of scale to the workplace - which will be fake carbon fibre skinned with a chrome border. After this I uploaded the canvases from head and then just began tracing out some shapes. I think I I were to do this again - I would print and trace the overall profiles from the form of the f1 car by hand onto a separate sheet of paper to make this step easier. This was repeated with each part which makes up the main sections of an F1 car other than the wings as I wanted it to be very simplistic much like the inspiration. Finally, I duplicated the parts and bent them to shape to produce a render before exporting the flat files which are currently printing.

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