Thread: Oh no not another Willys Gasser build, this time a Willys shop truck

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Originally Posted by rspears

Looking good, Steve. Thanks for posting. I'm thinking of making up a pair of flat hood side panels for the '33 one of these days, and your approach of forming on a piece of melamine is an easy way to do flat stuff.

Its also great for making shapes etc etc, there are loads of tips & tricks with glassfibre, do you guys have Cellutex over there ?

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Its also great for making shapes etc etc, there are loads of tips & tricks with glassfibre, do you guys have Cellutex over there ?

I'm not familiar with Cullutex. When I Google Cellutex it comes up with plastic table covers?

Originally Posted by rspears

I'm not familiar with Cullutex. When I Google Cellutex it comes up with plastic table covers?

Sorry Roger bloody predictive text on my phone, it should of been Celotex, look here Celotex Insulation Board 25mmx1200x2.4m | Wickes.co.uk
Its good stuff because it can be sanded and cut to shape very easily and the resin doesn't melt it when you glass over it.

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Sorry Roger bloody predictive text on my phone, it should of been Celotex, look here Celotex Insulation Board 25mmx1200x2.4m | Wickes.co.uk
Its good stuff because it can be sanded and cut to shape very easily and the resin doesn't melt it when you glass over it.

Yes, we do have Celotex insulation board, but I'll honestly say that I never considered it for forming for glass. I've used florist's foam which comes in blocks of varying thickness which can be hot glued together and then very quickly sculpted but I can really see that Celotex could be a great tool for doing something like a console. I assume that one can hot glue it together, too, to give bulk for rounding over edges, etc?

I've also never seen the bendy ply you describe, but it appears to be available here, also tagged "flexiply" by some. Amazing stuff for making a curved wall, or for laying a floor atop the arched frame rails of a vintage car replica.