Alain's Brasil-style turbo Fox build

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Thank you for the comments, folks!!

I finished the first seat a few days ago. It took a couple of months total working a bit on it most days, but a lot of the work was undoing the previous covers and copying them; the next seat should go a bit faster. The rear seat is uncharted territory though, and will probably take longer to make.















Before moving onto the next seat, I started a little side project to build the trim pieces that cover the side of each seat base. Here is a pic of a gol gti showing the piece I'm referring to:



First I'm making a plug out of balsa wood, which later I'll coat in fiberglass resin and filler to smooth out, then make a mold of it using plaster. The final parts will be fiberglass.











So far so good, as long as I don't ruin it trying to make a mold we should be good. I ordered some PVA release agent to help that step, as so many times in the past I've tried using something I had laying around as a mold release (oil, wax, butter, foil, etc) and it never worked very well.