Scratch Build – Complete Cor Leonis

The fact that this is all hand tooled is just friggen amazing. Awesome work again Attila, keep it up!

 

That chassis looks lovely. it's very open but still looks well over engineered. top Modding Atilla

 

That base looks flipping awesome .

 

Wait.. Are you saying there will be no more updates? I'm kinda bummed now.

 

Ok, Ok, those feet turned out quite decent, but I still think you should've used the X'ed ones.

 

Hm. The rounded feet don't mesh well with the more angular chassis, but I'll reserve judgement until I see the shell.

As always, fine filing work.

 

dont worry about the feet

THEY ARE AWSOME!!

 

Nice, nice, nice Atilla I think I like the back more than the front to bad you could not turn the base around. Very good looking frame work.

So now we get intermission and can watch Arrakis come to life. Sweet

 

You are my idol man! The things you do with a simple file are quite amazing...I realy admire that kind of talent and patience. I'm more of a CNC & Laser kinda guy....but you are great end of line.
Regards,
David

 

Thats some thick alu, this things gonna be bullet proof lol. Nice design too

 

Absolutely stunning build.

 

Thanks guys.

No, I didn't say that.

I am looking at the front a little critically at the moment. There may be some modification, or even renewal here. The back is good and wont be touched.

Thanks.

You got it. and thanks mate.

Haha., thank you. But I could easily be 'more of a cnc and laser kinda guy' too. If I had the money and the space.

It is very solid but there is a reason for that. Apart from looks, the shell will offer no structural support at all.

Thank you.

 

As ever Attila, you raise the standard for proper hand-crafted material with a beautiful design. Where Leonis goes from here with regards to a shell.... well, suffice to say that I look forward to it eagerly.

 

Thanks Ziip.

OK, I've been studying various methods to make the shell skins and it seems as though enough ideas have been filed away to make a confident start to this part of the project.


After redesigning and making a new front strut assembly, the first thing I did was to make a turntable from some wood that's been sitting in the back yard. The only extra purchases were a bearing mechanism and a piece of melamine/chipboard. I've wanted one of these for ages but never got around to making one. It's just terrific and very useful.





And the first part to be made is the top tie piece. This is very important because as well as tying the front and back parts at the top, this will hold the top part of the shell as well as the hinging mechanism thereby supporting the side panels. So it has to be strong. But I had a brain snap and totally stuffed it up. First by mounting it back to front and then by hand drilling the screw holes and getting them all crooked.



So this part had to be made over. This time the part was drilled in the press.





And mounted before any heavy duty shaping is done.



The top curve is eyed and marked up using some thin bar.





And then the shaping can start with a hacksaw.



This hacksaw has another mounting point for the blade so that deeper cuts can be made.



And here's my new toy. This is a Nicholson Magicut file, it's big and heavy and really speeds up the removal of large amounts of material. It's no exaggeration to say filing times are cut in half with this.



Sometimes it's more like a plane than a file with large curled up tubes of alu left behind.



And the finished part.





And it goes up here.





Then for the front a mounting plate is made from some 4 mm plate. This needs to go over the rad so it can be removable.





And it goes here.



This mounting plate is wider than the front of the chassis to allow the side panels to close flush.



Back soon with more of the front.

 

Huzzah! Didn't have to wait too long for the next part of the adventure.

Attila, as ever, fantastic work.

 

Attila, I still find it absolutely amazing that you manage to do all this with just a hacksaw and a drill press.

 

Don't forget about the heavy dose of effort and persistence

 

Hmmm nifty hacksaw , I'd probably benefit from some nice new files too, I've no idea how ancient the ones I use are but they seem really old .

Every chunk of the design you add to this is perfect keep it up Attila .

 

Nice to see that you got a file like that. Faster filing should mean more updates, right?

 

Don't forget about the new file which is more a plane than a file.

No, seriously - looking very good. Thanks for the fix - I'm pretty high now!