Foam Car

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I suspect this may have been posted before, but I found this to be very interesting.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1949

Please keep the discussion civil and friendly, the way 405th discussions are SUPPOSED to go..

Yes, this has been introduced as a way to do armor, but the person(s) trying it did not have success, and abandoned it. No, that does not prove that it's impossible to do this, only that it certainly wouldn't be easy and shouldn't be underestimated.
 
Wasn't a whole lot of description on how they did that, but I'd be interested to see how they handled the heat dissipation from the engine. I wonder how flexible the paint is as well as I expect one smack and you could get a nice sized crack along the outside of it.

As for armor making. As long as you had some sort of working base like this guy did for the car, I would suspect it would be just like sculpting with foam. Build up around the base and shave away till you have your desired shape(ie helmet).

Edit: Found another tiny article about it. http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/30/lithuan...yurethane-foam/

Ah, here we go. There may be no engine in it after all. http://www.automotto.org/entry/lithuanian-...s-a-death-trap/
 
That is amazing, seems like a good way to build my Starcraft Marine suit.

I will have to look into this, any idea what type of foam was used?
 
M07Marauder said:
That is amazing, seems like a good way to build my Starcraft Marine suit.

I will have to look into this, any idea what type of foam was used?
PU means Poly Urethane
 
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That was a really cool idea. There is no way I would want to get in an accident with that though the think would just blow apart. I don't think that they drove it really either in the one pic their was a flatbed.
 
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