[JMay]

Cro-Sal Cheetah Conversion

Shown elsewhere on this forum is my version of the Bill Thomas Cheetah created by scanning an old resin shell.

   

   
Finished car

Having been racing this at my local club with some success, and was itching to create something similar, when I came across the Cro-Sal special version of the Cheetah which was the only open top racing Cheetah. Going back to my CAD file I looked at various options to create the open top, i.e. remove the roof and re-profile the rear deck, and ultimately after several iterations decided the only way to do it was to cut the rear of the car off from the cockpit backwards then redraw the entire rear.

 Cut & shut
   

It is not an accurate version but gives the flavour of the coupe so happy with that, and below is the 1st print, painted up and trial sitting on my Goodwood IL Boxer chassis from the original Cheetah.

   

FDM Printed using Elegoo PLA+ vertically at 0.1mm layers 

Cheers
           John