Cyberpunk Mx5 - Starting the Fastback (Patreon)

So you can see the boot has been stripped down and refitted to the car in preparation for the new design which I have been waiting to start for a while.The rear quarters were masked off and I started laying out some rough lines. I'm going to be designing my own fastback roof to give the car a much more cyberpunk vibe. It's heavily inspired by the FD RX7 bootlid with a few cyberpunk elements added in to tie the whole car together and then eventually a new spoiler. The first part to make however was the base for the new roof.Laser level came in handy again getting this line perfectly centered up the center of the car.Then I came back in and refined the lines I was going to make for the new roofline.Once I was happy with the curves I transferred them to the other side using a template. Then I started planning out exactly how I wanted the roofline to look.This process was a huge amount of back and forth throwing a new line up on the cardboard, stepping back, seeing if it worked, changing it by only a couple mms and then re-checking. After almost a good hour of this I was finally happy with the shape and transferred it to a wooden template that would guide me when sanding the foam.Speaking of foam, the perimeter was boarded up to catch any spillage since this expanding foam gets everywhere and then I proceeded to pour all that was left of my expanding foam onto this to give me plenty of material to carve down and get the exact shape I was after.It was a bit gutted to have to cover up the old roof with the pill and other stickers but this car was always meant to be a constant evolution so it is what it is.

You'll have to forgive me but since I was straight zooming along I forgot to take progress photos, but the foam has been carved down and the roofline is now all fleshed out.I shaped the whole LHS first, doing my best to slowly trim down to the final shape so I wouldn't have to pour any more foam but the cheese grater goes through this foam like nobodies business so I had to re-pour a couple times. Eventually I got the whole LHS where I wanted it, made some more templates and then finished the RHS.I think the final shape really captures what I was going for with the FD bootlid design but modified to work with the shapes I'm dealing with.Tomorrow I start refining this shape with filler just so I have something solid that I can glass over and once the filling is done I'll start on the next piece which will be my lip spoiler / speed tail. If I made it now I would have just kept bumping into it and breaking shit off. See? I'm learning.THE NEXT DAY

The whole roof has been covered in filler and I've started the main sanding process.After a couple of days I had the roof pretty much to a state I was happy with.Very difficult to capture the lines with the plaster all white but the main thing is I can move forward with the rest of the roof and so will be focusing on the speed tail spoiler next.