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Step 4Build the cargo lid
The upper portion is sculpted and hollowed out.
Again, I considered 3/8" foam bent over jigging but decided to continue with the hot wired foam arches I used on the more tightly contoured head. Part of this was because I had to deal with the curves of the rear hips rather than have everything come to a taper front and rear.
Two inch increments were marked off front to rear on the horizontal and vertical planes. Measuring along them gave the dimensions to cut the arches. They are not perfect circles, adjustments were built in with multiple radius points on the foam. As with the rest of the cutter, both sides of a section were pinned (or can be screwed or 5 minute epoxied) together, hot wired together, trial fitted, rough sanded and installed as pairs rather than doing one side at a time.
Again, I considered 3/8" foam bent over jigging but decided to continue with the hot wired foam arches I used on the more tightly contoured head. Part of this was because I had to deal with the curves of the rear hips rather than have everything come to a taper front and rear.
Two inch increments were marked off front to rear on the horizontal and vertical planes. Measuring along them gave the dimensions to cut the arches. They are not perfect circles, adjustments were built in with multiple radius points on the foam. As with the rest of the cutter, both sides of a section were pinned (or can be screwed or 5 minute epoxied) together, hot wired together, trial fitted, rough sanded and installed as pairs rather than doing one side at a time.
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