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hi it's Ray from Pro shap of Workshop in
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Charon Massachusetts and believe it or
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not we really do want to work on that
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Alpha the reason why it has been this
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big Hiatus is right here was like three
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big giant tables filled with this
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architectural job that we did that took
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forever to do and then we had to buff it
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and uh in the process of buffing this
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this red uh buffing Rouge got everywhere
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and we had to clean the shop up and it's
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just been a total disaster we've been
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doing some deep uh thinking about where
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we're headed and uh we we we really want
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to do this Alpha as much as possible
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last week I was intending to do a video
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but there's always something in the way
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there's always a project I got to get
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done something to got pay the bills I
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want to talk about where we are with the
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alpha it's going to be probably a little
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bit of repeat of what I did in the last
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episode but to bring up some of the new
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people and to refresh your mind what we
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did was we took this picture which is an
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AI design artificial design from mid
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journey.com what we did on this is we
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interpreted that drawing and made this
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wire for all by eye I think we only have
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at most probably like under 10 hours or
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so invested so far here and we put this
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stand in the back so that you could see
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the wire form because you need the White
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cardboard and everything so I've been
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thinking about this all along as to what
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the next Next Step would be and I might
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even be re reiterating some of the stuff
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here is that what has to happen now is I
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can't uh project the center and and go
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up to the center line here because I
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need to know the width of the car these
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lines here are preliminary wires that we
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bent in a in a in a uh quick way so they
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have to be all checked and I might have
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mentioned this before too but I'm going
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to go over it again is what you have to
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do is take on Long uh flows of of Curves
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and Straits you use a 3/16 wire and this
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is quarter inch wire for the wire form
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and you can put that 3/16 wire and you
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just go like this and you measure how
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it's hitting these here so now this is
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this is pretty tight this one's tight
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that one's tight no that one's got a
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little Gap in it see so that might have
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to come up so some these wires are going
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to have to be done over again and then
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now we go like this and we've got and
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this wants to be pretty straight right
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in here we've got a wire that's
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deficient by about 38 of an inch here
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and we got to do this on every wire and
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see what the continuity of that line
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does so this one's definitely bad we got
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to adjust that so those have been Mig
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welded in and we can just break the Mig
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Wells or make a new wire so that process
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has to happen that means we we have to
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qualify every one of those wires and
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correct them maybe add a few more wires
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into this wire for so we'll check them
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all with the that 3/16 rod and then some
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of them that you have to do a Bend to
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like this we'll use a 1/8 inch rod and
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we'll check all of those wires as well
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see so um
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meanwhile uh at the start of this
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process um this guy steuart Brown who
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owns a company called Forte Vision he's
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a really accomplished CAD guy and he has
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a really expensive scanning machine and
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he he's well known in England he's in uh
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Dorset England down by the coast uh he's
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only I think about 20 miles from the the
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ocean from the channel basically he he
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befriended me online we've had many
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conversations now on the phone and on
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his own volition he sees the promise of
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AI design and he took in the same
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picture and he's created a cad model
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he's got the model all done he designed
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the interior and everything now I may or
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may not use that he's coming over uh
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next month and he's going to stay here
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for a couple weeks or more and he wants
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to little learn a little bit about uh
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shaping and we're going to be
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transferring uh some information back
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and forth sort of an exchange uh just on
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a friendly basis and uh uh he'll be
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working on this with me and uh he'll
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have his laptop and we can consult about
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a lot of the stuff here I know what I
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want and he probably knows what he wants
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but I've looked at his Model A little
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bit and to me it looks like he flared it
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out here and he might be right so uh I
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might incorporate that but that would
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come later so that's going to be some
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interesting videos when when Stuart
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comes over he's a really great guy and I
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always enjoyed talking to him tomorrow
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we're supposed to have another
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conversation on another subject
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about another car and uh what we got to
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do again on this is get all these wires
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right and then what we're going to do is
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we're going to number each wire we'll
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put a piece of tape with a magic marker
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and we'll have them all numbered so we
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can account for uh where they belong and
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what what uh placement and then we're
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going to put cardboard a big sheet of
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cardboard in the back and trace this
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curve and and uh get this all uh
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patented on a piece of cardboard and
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then a smaller piece of cardboard after
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these get corrected and we'll Trace all
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these and we'll have a number and a
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tracing for each wire and we're going to
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fill in a little bit more so there'll be
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a couple more wires than what we see
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here so then with that tracing we'll
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Bend all the wires and they're going to
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be all symmetrical and then we have the
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the the measurements for the when we put
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this cardboard up here we'll have
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measurements between each one of these
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wires so we'll be able to mark off the
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new wire we'll have to make a
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symmetrical copy of this whole side of
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the car so this is the left side we be
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making the right side of the car and the
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reason why I want to do that is because
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now we can take the right side of the
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car and the left side of the car and we
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can place it we'll probably put it here
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in the middle of this space here and I
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have the alpha rear end we'll put the
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alpha rear end here and the alpha front
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end here and that will set the track WID
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and we'll also be able to make sure that
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we have enough clearance on the on the
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tires and everything and once we
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determine what the width of the body is
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actually supposed to be then we can put
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the center wire in and then start
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filling it in if we made the center wire
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right here now that's that's a big guess
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and we could easily screw up on the
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track with uh because you need to to be
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able to see the car from all angles you
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be able to walk around it and if we have
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the two sides if we need to move them
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out an inch this way or an inch in this
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way we'll be able to do that and we'll
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have the rear end and front end plugged
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in so we know that the track width is
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right and we'll be able to see the
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aesthetic as we create the center wires
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now the big mystery is uh the front is
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defined well but the back is not now uh
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Stewart has defined the back in his uh
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is CAD model I might go with that and I
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I after we get this assembly all
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together and it comes to the point where
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I'm starting to fill in the center and I
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want to get that back section filled in
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I can just freeform it with the wires
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but I also have another alternative and
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I'll show you that I did make a quick
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little video of showing the modeling
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process of making a scale model and uh I
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I this is another AI design and I did it
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by gluing up Pine and uh I'll talk about
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that in a minute but this is actually
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the Alpha I Glu this up uh probably like
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two weeks ago or so and I was going to
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carve this similar to I carved this how
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I car it is with a grinder so it's an
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outdoor job the dust is everywhere and I
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take a a 24 grit on a 5-in grinder and
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just grind away have the picture there
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to give me a little guidance and uh this
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one I probably got uh I don't know maybe
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30 40 hours in it or something now I've
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been doing an hour at a time
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and this is a a n a late 30s uh French
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uh coach building design it could be a
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uh uh foni fashi or S saic I think uh
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and's a couple other French designers
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did similar work in the late 30s and
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I've always loved this style and this
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one is exceptional I was going to do
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this originally with the pine core just
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like this and then put the uh Clay on it
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but I decided instead to do this Bondo
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and uh it's taken a while and it's still
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you know probably another four or five
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hours it just keeps going on cuz I'm a
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crazy perfectionist I've got this front
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fender where I want it now and I got to
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you got to dial in the Symmetry as well
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as possible too so I want to make this
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actually an all painted model and all
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dressed up with all the little details
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and everything but this one is the alpha
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and this will be a little bit different
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um I might just kind of car the pine out
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with the grinder and and then instead of
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using Bondo I will use clay and I'll
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clay model this and that will give me a
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way that's another way of how I want to
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shape that back end because the back
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end's really important it's probably you
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know 50% of the design or not that much
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maybe 40% of the design the back and the
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front are the most important and then
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the silhouette so I want to get that
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back really nice looking design and it
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might take two three iterations with
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Clay it's pretty easy if you're going to
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do it with Bondo not so much if you do
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it with wire it's going to be a little
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tricky too because you bend all the
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wires and you might have to cut them off
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with the with the clay you know okay you
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need to fend this to protrude a little
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bit more you put a little more Clay on
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you don't like it take the clay off it's
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pretty simple so I might just
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concentrate on the back end of this
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model so I get some ideas and I think
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that's going to help out a lot but
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that's a little further down the road
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because we got to get the two sides done
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right and uh then
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we're going to fill in the middle once
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we get the two sides right we're going
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to put it over here so we got a lot of
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work ahead of us thanks for watching
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it's Ray from Pro shaper Workshop in
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Charlton Massachusetts