Shell Eco Marathon Progression

              

Progress so far for the Shell Eco Marathon

https://www.makethefuture.shell/en-gb/shell-eco-marathon

To begin the school year my teacher Mr. Grosinger told the class about the Shell Eco Marathon and gave us their website to let us in on what it was all about. He told us we would be building a car for the event but first we would needed to read the rules of the Shell Eco Marathon to make sure we follow their rules and are able to participate.

We each gave ourselves a task for or part of the body that we were going to work on and then build if we got back to school. The part that I got was the body of the car like the design and measurements of the car. 

My first task was to make my own measurements based on the restrictions that the Shell Eco Marathon and make the body of the car and then draw it. I used a scaling and converting website to help me change the restrictions off the Shell Eco Marathon into different measurements so I could draw it on paper

This was the first drawing I made with the measurements and in isometric and orthographic form. The drawings were all made using the measurements that I came up with for what I thought would best be useful for our car.

I redesigned the drawings that I made since I wanted to know what the team wanted me to change so they could also get a say in what the car would look like and how it would fit. I cleaned the lines and made some improvements to the cars body that the team recommended me to change and then changed the body by removing some parts of the original build.

Before making a 3D model of the Shell Eco Marathon Mr. Grosinger told me to make a 3D model of a different car so I could get a reference and an idea of how to build the Shell Eco Marathon. I found a 3D version of a Lamborghini Countach and Mr.G bought it for me to put together.

http://www.visualspicer.com/printach.html

After finishing the 3D model on the Lamborghini Mr. G told me to make a blog from start to finish on how I built the Lamborghini. The blog I made was then posted on Linkedin and then I started to work on the 3D model of the Shell Eco Marathon.

http://kittensandmotorcycles.blogspot.com/2011/07/batavus-bits.html

I tried to find a different kind of 3D model and found a motorcycle model that I thought I could use as another reference for my build. After building this model I started on my build for the Shell Eco Marathon.

The first part that I started the 3D model with was with the base of the model and then started to fold and cut pieces of paper that I could use for the parts of the car model. The parts I created were long strips of paper that I would fold and then cut slits into them to make them round.

The finished product of the car model that I made looked like a shoe and I wanted to fix that so it looks more like a car. The car model was very hard to put together with the folds but I think that making a 3D version on OnShape will be better. 

OnShape-https://www.onshape.com/en/

Lamborghini Countach Paper Model

Result of Paper Model Experiment

http://www.visualspicer.com/printach.html Thank You! 

Taras Lesko

Before getting the final, complete version of the paper model, I put the pieces of the front and the back together by using a hot glue gun. The hot glue gun was a better adhesive then paper glue that I started out with. The hot glue gun was a thicker substance that gave better support to the parts.

After putting the front and back part of the paper model together, I started to work on the wheels of the model and putting the folds together as instructed on the pdf.

After putting all the back parts together, I cut into the slits that were instructed in the pdf and put the fold for the wing through the slits. I then put the bottom of the wing on the stands that were made and then put the top of the bottom winds and it came out a little wobbly but it still stood up.

The I put together the cut outs that made the exhaust and license plate together and put it on the bottom of the back using the paper glue that I had. The exhaust was one of the parts that were hard to put together since it will collapse every time I pushed to hard on the paper.

The bottom of the back is were the exhaust and license plate would go, the bottom added like a support for the back and it was a good separator for the back and floor. The piece was very difficult to put on since the folds were tricky to put on the back.

I started to fold the lights and back fender of the model. The pieces were very simple to put together but got tricky when I started to fold the inner piece of the fender, the folds were not very clear and I made a mistake putting it together.

After finishing the front, I started to work on the back of the model separately since is was getting to big to work with. The parts were easier to put together then the front since the folds were easier to follow and put together.

 

The last thing that I had to do to the front part of the paper model was to add the side vents and the sides where the vents were going to be placed on. The vents were very easy to fold and attach to the side parts but the parts wouldn't stick to the rest of the front body since the vents weighed more then the front part. I had to hold it to the front part until it dried but I failed once and didn't wait long enough that it fell apart.

Adding the final parts of the front parts was complete and I started to make the vents that would go on the white, marked, parts that had writing on them. The top vents were to go on the white parts with writing and I folded the vents to make them a solid and then pasted them to the white on the parts that attached to the rest of the front.

Before continuing the front part, I had to put in the bottom supports for the front part. The parts weren't hard to put on so I simply just added glue to the white folds and attached them to the instructed parts in the instruction pdf.

Before adding the supports, I added the front wheel stands, the place where the wheels were going to be placed. The places were hard to figure out how to place and but I was able to paste them on to the front of the paper model.

I added the doors to the paper model, the pieces were very simple to put to the parts that were already attached to each other. I had to put on the doors before adding the wheel and bottom paper supporters since the wheel base connected to the doors and the other pieces of the front.

I added the hood and the windows of the model. They attached very simple to the parts I already pasted together and then folded them to show that they were 3D. 

After doing the front hood of the car, I added the windows on the front and the side corner windows. The folds on the windows were easy to make and after the glue settled, the folds made the windows and corner windows.

To start off the model, I started by printing every page out and then cutting out every piece. The first piece was the front and then started folding and gluing the parts to the hood. The hood was very easy to put together and then the other parts of the hood as well.

My teacher was able to pay for the full pdf for the paper model and I started the paper model by starting to print everything out. I ran out of ink two times but was still continuing the paper model.

Before I did the full paper model, I started doing the sample model that was only the front hood and the top vents with one rim. The sample was very easy to make and if I completed that, my teacher would give me the full pdf.