Troy was working on a cutout template his Super Stock Dart clone. He's got an "as delivered/picked up" picture of Charlie Castaldo's Dart. Kinkos could make up a life size enlarged print of the picture.

The car club's got a digital projector and I thought it might be more accurate, cheaper, and you could do more checking of the scale (rather than someone at Kinkos).

So here some picture I took of the process...



We made lots and lots of adjustments for keystone effects. Measured horizontal, vertical, and diagonal to the 1/16" to make sure the image was not skewed. I drew on the digital picture horizontal and vertical lines off of the center of the axle also. Then the tracing began. That was easier and faster than the setup actually....

Finished...

nice work ...

How hard is it going to be to tranfer a 2D image from the wall to the 3D car? Isn't your template going to be a little short once you get down to the bottom of the quarters? It is a pretty good idea though.

Or you could just take an opposite side front fender, turn it around and approximate off of it...

Great Idea. To help with scaling, you could put a scale, or ruler in the picture the same distance from the camera as the wheel opening, or lettering.

We were ok on the scale because I new how big the wheel is. For jokes I measures the lug nuts and they were also 3/4"!!

(Hemi A bodys had the large lug nuts)

Variation on same idea, I took the same picture, sized it in Visio to actual size so that it matched known dimensions such as lug nuts, wheel center, gas cap, etc, and printed it out, basically using the lifesize photo as a template.