2012 concept bike build, my Honours year Industrial Design project!

[E30_pilot]

Looks like you're making some good progress and I say it looks cooooooool!

[JamesE30]

Cheers guys,

Fuck this is a big project. I've been at uni doing 13hrs+ literally every single day, done several all nighters now too. So basically I'm fucked. Physically and mentally, it's really getting to me. Had many set backs over the last few weeks and to be totally honest I'm behind schedule.

But anyway fuck loads of hours does equal progress so here's an update..
I'll save the details and let a few pics do most of the talking..


Rushing to get the model ready to scan


State of the model before scanning *not the standard I was hoping for. Just not enough hours in the week..


3D scanning the model.


The $200,000 3D scanner basically takes a couple hundred photos of the object and uses the circular stickers to to triangulate a position in space and link each picture together to create an extremely accurate 3D mesh of the scene. That's the noob explination anyway haha


I'll share some images of the scans later.

Time to begin balancing the model.


Made some rigs to measure points in x,y and z axis that can be translated to the other side of the model. Measure a point from the master side, translate it to the other side and mark it with a bit of white out, creating a rough 3D mesh I can work with as a starting point.

[ohthejosh]

this is way cool. this was what i wanted to do when i was younger lol. quick question. are you going to try and make a working model or just a clay one?

[JamesE30]

Surfaces straight from the scan





Other components I modelled, some of these are finished, some not.


Theme boards I thought you guys might like..




And a couple of renders that still need a little work:



Colour scheme i like :P

[N2MYE30]

Bravo! I like everything about this project. Looks like those hours are paying off. :up: Keep it up!

[OldsCool]

awesome work! stuff i was always dreaming about but never got a chance to learn it. i'm in a weird way jealous and i'm full of respect at the same moment :D

[ethirtydavid]

man this bike changed a lot from the beginning designs with clay, looks nuts now! -nicely done

[JamesE30]

Cheers guys
Sorry not much of an update but here is a couple more renders of the colour scheme Im pretty set on:





I've moved along a lot with the model, fibreglass is well underway. Need to hook up my camera so I can upload some pics for you guys :up:

[tg318is]

The renders look great!

[Kershaw]

dude, really nice job. you're very talented.

[pharow]

Awesome

[mr2peak]

I'm studying the same thing, gotta say the workload is brutal. Looks excellent!

[JamesE30]

Dont think I posted it here earlier, but I bought a wrecked NSR150 at the start of the project I'm using for parts




Update time!
Been flat out as you can imagine but here is a much needed update. Ill try to keep updates reasonably brief from now in order to catch up. I plan to update my personal blog after completion with a more detailed write up. I just bought the domain rocker-motorcycles.com Which will be dedicated to this project.

So here are a few shots of the clay after balancing and before fibreglass began







Spraying the clay with shellac

[JamesE30]

Mould part lines marked. Decided to make the main body with a 3 part mould. In hindsight more parts would have made things easier especially if I were to be making multiple casts from the moulds. But for this one off it saved me time joining the parts later..



Mould Dams





First part off came out average at best. Definitely workable though, and not worth redoing, It was my first time using fibreglass after all.. and the parts only got better from here. Basically I made them too thin and didn't thicken my 1st coat of resin with "flock" so ended up with air bubbles behind the gelcoat = lumpy parts... could be worse





Front piece glassed up and centreline dam built from 16mm MDF. I used the digital scan files I had to print a full size silhouette



The blue is plastiscene used to fill the gaps between the clay and the dams

[JamesE30]

The blue is "PVA" (not the glue) it's a release agent especially required for the clay get it out of the mould in "one" piece. It's applied after about 3-4 coats of wax.



Pre-cut fg mating and all the other crap that smells good





gelcoat:



Glassed:



Fixed on a steel frame My friend Jamie whipped up from a cad drawing I gave him for me to help keep the parts aligned and rigid. Fits perfect!





Dam off, nice crisp centreline for the other part to be built up to