Ive been trying to fabricate a piece of a wheel arch for my classic Mercedes but without success. That's the wheel arch .
I tried to do it in two ways first I bend the lip of the wheel arch and tried to shrink it to create the curve. It can be seen on one of the pictures. I put tucks with pliers as I don't have tuck forks. The other side of the blank I tried to bend with a mallet to achieve the even curve.
The other way I tried was by bending the blank first and then try to create the lip.
None of the methods worked. Any other ideas? Maybe creating hammerform?
The pictures of my tries.
I tried to do it in two ways first I bend the lip of the wheel arch and tried to shrink it to create the curve. It can be seen on one of the pictures. I put tucks with pliers as I don't have tuck forks. The other side of the blank I tried to bend with a mallet to achieve the even curve.
The other way I tried was by bending the blank first and then try to create the lip.
None of the methods worked. Any other ideas? Maybe creating hammerform?
The pictures of my tries.