Vacuum Forming Post 1

Here is my progress for day one  vacuum forming project. Unfortunately, I made several initial mistakes which I failed to document. I tried to form a "jelly bean" like shape out of MDF which proved far to difficult. After talking to several other students in the shop, I was informed that, due to the shape's thickness, the styrene would become very thin and breakable towards the bottom as it formed over MDF. I threw out the jelly bean shape and came up with a design that had  more manageable flat surface and flowing side edges. I glued the pieces together with super 77  then cut out the shape on the ban saw and sanded it down with the vertical sand belt.  I then split the two identical sides and used the router with an 1/8th in. bit to get a smooth radius around the edges of each form. Tomorrow I plan to vacuum form both parts, cut those parts out, sand them and attach them together with weld on.