type3guy

You should start with a frame work. Kinda like framing a house. I use to use bass wood strips from an art supply store and cut it with handi cutters found at sears. In the shop we used to call them finger lopers. When you see the handi cutters youll see what I mean. Anyway figure out how you want it to look and build your frame. Use a hot glue gun to glue it together. I wouldn't draw it out or measure anything but pieced it together in the car. Cutting pieces as I went along. Your going to get a more natural look this way, if you measure your going to end up with a square console that anyone could build out of wood. After the frame is all glued together with hot glue you should coat each joint or corner with fiberglass resin this will insure a better structural frame. Get some fleece grill cloth and stretchy tshirt material and stretch it over the frame attaching on the underside if possible. With the use of various types of fabric you have more options with hard corners and pieces that need to stretch more. Once your happy with the stretch job coat the whole thing with resin it will get shinny and smooth when the resin has saturated the fabric (important for structural quality) Let this dry for a few hours and start covering with fiberglass mat or spray on fiberglass shards. This will harden also, with a grinder, grind down the high points and fill low points with bondo. As you start working with this stuff everything will make sence. You've also got to use some common sence and read packaging of resin fiberglass mat and bondo. Your going to need body rasping tools, tons of sandpaper and grinding disks face masks (because after 5 years not working with this stuff I still can't smell anything.) Good luck and feel free to ask any questions on this subject. I'll post some pics soon of a current project Im working on with how to pics. Its my own car so things are looking pretty rad.