Hey again
I tried to PM but they're still switched off heh.
Could you possibly give some advice regarding the glassing & hardening of the backpack? I'm trying to decide how best to do my one
In addition, any advice on the strapping would be good.
Cheers!
Blah I can't PM either, oh well.
My backpack took a lot of work to fix after what I did to it.. but meh.. for mine I had it in 3 seperate pieces and resined the inside of all of those pieces before assembling it. It sort of worked and sort of didnt. It was easier to get too when it was in multiple pieces, but it warped like I couldnt even believe.
Here is a picture of what it looked like after I forced it into place and connected the warped pieces.
Pretty nasty. the edges and the face of the front was doing the wave so to speak. You could probably avoid that whole entire mess by resining the outside first and then getting the inside with a well placed hole cut in the back side of the backpack (thats what i ended up doing..)
I had to put huge amounts of bondo on the outside to try and smooth it out, it only partly worked so i cut a hole in the back, bondoed the INSIDE as well, and just sanded my way right through the resin and paper into the inner bondo to flatten it out. Worked perfectly but .. yeah.. Don't do what i did =P
Moral of the story is you shouldn't worry about it too much. It appears anything can be fixed with time and bondo.
