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Originally Posted by jase_b
the only thing is with that nosecone is its been done in a mould and mine will have to be done free hand but alot of sanding should get me in the right direction
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Yes but it proves the point that fibreglass is fully up to taking lights by itself, you don't need a frame behind. Of course you can always bond alloy into the fibreglass to add strength.
There are ways and means, you can go the whole hog make a plug, make a mould from it and then make your part. Or you can make your shape and make the part directly on it, you'll have to do *lots* more sanding if you go that route, especially if you want to go C/F but it's doable. I haven't got them here but I have a couple of pdf's of various methods of playing with CF on my laptop, I'll see if I can find the links to the originals and post them.
Personally I've only really read up on the stuff and done a bit of fairing fixing/modifying, mucho Kudo's to you for attempting to do something from scratch.
Druid