I epoxied a couple pieces of modeling board together...
...and started whittling;
until I ended up with this:
The broken wing tips are because I live in CAD, and forget sometimes that what is possible in my world is not always feasible here on Earth.
They were quite literally paper thin, and couldn't stand up to the violence and terror of a carbide end mill spinning at 1y0K. I had the ShopBot running really gentle and slow too, but the just blew away into the piles of chips; literally. I will round them off, by hand, from where they are.
You might also have noticed that the feature lines in the wings are just very lightly cut. I chose a 0.375" ball end mill that gave me all the detail I needed in the whole piece, but wouldn't sink into these too deep. From here, I will experiment, by hand, using the cuts as templates until I find what I'm looking for.
As mentioned, it's tiny and can be easily lost against the busy backdrop of drivetrain components.
A strip of wood gives a clue of how the molding, along with the front cage tubes, will create the image of a hood; when there is none. This is the first time I've ever done a project like this. Normally I would start with a hood and concentrate on eliminating everything possible to make sure all you see are its lines. With Schism, it's the exact opposite - I have to keep strategically adding things until it paints the right picture. Now that I'm getting used to it, it's kind of natural because it's like drawing. The right lines, here and there, and the mind starts to see curves and reflections, and three-dimensional shapes that aren't on the paper.
