Admittedly, the previous post had some pretty ugly pictures. You might be wondering where I am going with this and why I look like a hack. Well, be patient, damn it! This stuff takes time and you can not be in a hurry.
So, continuing with the tank, you can only work the material around the form so long until you run into problems. The issues I encounter is the particle board doesn't make a good form, it breaks easily. So...out comes the hammer and dolly. The tricky part of this entire project is the corners. Once you get a rough shape stretched or pulled over the fragile form, you have to shrink the the material to achieve the desired shape. This might seem counter productive to first stretch then shrink, but hopefully it becomes clear when you do it. Anyway with a bit or persuasion, you can get it to look like this....
Admittedly, that is not too awfully impressive. You can see somewhat in the picture how you "gain" material in the corner. This extra material has to be trimmed away. Trust me, this makes things sooo much easier to work with. After some trimming and further hammer and dolly work, about 5-10 minutes worth, you can get something that looks like this.....
and then, some thing like this....
Bam! Now, make another side. Be sure to make it a mirror copy of the first one. Also make sure you router mirror sides of your forms. My failure to do that had some impact on why I cracked my forms.
