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Preview division from last blog:  Individually, part one is the one i'm working on.  It is basically a blister form, so we marked the top shape with paper, then make a blister template as the starting point. Equipment involved:  Guillotine,  English Wheel,  Tinsnips,  Metal Clamps,  Round Nylon Headed Mallet,  Flat Nylon Headed Mallet,  Shrinker Stretcher, Sandbag, Masking tape. Material involved:  MDF,  Aluminum Sheet several stages i have been through to make the metal skin of part one: Blister(stage one): Set up of the blister template  Jin and Jeremy helped me a lot by the foundation shape making. Thank you my group members they are the best! The basic form of the shape is determined by the blister, then I hammered it on the sandbag into a bowl shape in order to further develop its shape. Free forming using the template (stage two): found the tricky part to work on: the front part of the part one has nearly 90 degree angle curved i

Summary: We went through a lot of testings to approach the final 'skeleton' template, that includes joints testing and paper masking testing. JOINTS TESTING Having the laser cut files ready, we started by testing the joints between each pieces. Different thickness of the joint gap we chose to test out, from 2.5mm-3mm. Testing on small joints, we decided to use 2.6mm thickness gap, and apply to the laser cut files. Here is the laser cutting video taken by Jin: ASSEMBLE FAILED   Started out FIRST attempt of assembling, found out that the 2.6mm gap is too small to fit all the pieces together, then our skeleton was broken. :(  Below: the broken template   Paper masking testing:   While we were waiting for the new laser cut template (changed to 3mm gap instead), we used 200gsm paper to cover up the broken template and test out the approximate shape of the fuel tank. ASSEMBLE SUCCESS   So we tried our second attempt,

  Project two brief :  create a 1:1 scale template replicating the motorcycle fuel tank as a group,  then individually create an aluminium skin to adhere to a third of its contours.    Group members:  Our group has a good mix of architectural students and industrial students, as we naming ourselves the 'Kloud Nine', we worked productively and enjoyed so much learning from each other.   File preparation:  At our first meeting, we decided using three different ways to create the template, then see which one works the best. Here is the meeting records by our member Lornia: After approaching these three methods and discussing, finally we decided to use the Laser cutting method to create a criss-crossed hollow 'Skeleton' model. Then we moved on to work on the 3d modelling steps,   To be honest I did not involved too much on this step, Tauqir who is very professional about Rhino Grasshopper, as a leader he helped a lot in 3d modelling.  The