I decided to stop making the original side panel cause I didn’t like it and made a start on the plug for the bonnet instead
I can’t draw very well and it’s too much hassle to draw up the body panels on the computer so I’m designing the bonnet as I go along. There are endless things you can use to make up a plug for fibreglass moulding but for me personally I went with using metal cause that’s what I’m used to
For me I find using metal for the plug to be good because you can bend metal to the shape your after and it holds that shape, wood, plaster, foam etc etc can also be used but I may as well use what I have lying around here.
The plan is that after the bonnet is fibreglassed that it will be hinged at the rear of the bonnet so that I can flip it open rather than lift it off all the time.
Here I have the frame work all made and have riveted and welded on scrap panel steel that I cut out of old washing machine bodies that I got from the scrap yard.
Next stage is to cover it in body filler and then sand it down to the required shape etc