So you’ve always wanted to feel like James Bond behind the wheel of a vintage Aston Martin, but you’ve never quite been able to scratch up the several hundred thou to pay for it, huh? Well, you’re not alone. But in today’s age of Internet connectivity and 3-D printers, you may still have an option. Or at least that’s what a New Zealander by the name of Ivan Sentch is out to prove, anyway.
Yep, that Aston Martin-lover from Down Under has decided that he’s actually going to “print” a vintage DB4 and make his own running replica. Some kind of mad genius, you say? No, not really. The 3-D modeling noob has only had his (relatively inexpensive) Solidoodle 3D printer since January of this year.
He found an online rendering of the classic car, broke the design down into reasonably sized chunks and got his printer to start cranking out the pieces in plastic. He’s only got about a quarter of the body and the car’s dash left to print, and estimates he’s spent about $2,000 so far. Even including the price of the printer, that’s a bargain for an incredibly accurate body.
From there Ivan plans to use the printed plastic parts to build a mold for the final DB4 replica. He’ll then then slap it on a space frame chassis and some 1993 Nissan car parts to get the thing moving. OK, it may not actually run like an Aston Martin, but it’ll look cool.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering why Ivan chose the DB4 over all the potential cars he could have gone with, it’s because that model—the one produced just prior to the DB5 made famous in the Bond pic Goldfinger—has a back seat. Hey, you may be looking cool in your super-spy ride. But you gotta have enough room to take the kids to soccer practice, too.
Yeah, that’s right. The name is Sentch, Daddy Sentch.
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