25 wins — is the number of races won the Grand Prix from 1936 to 1937, which brought the car Auto Union Typ C.
Specialists division of Audi, which has been producing automotive tools, conducted an experiment and printed on 3D-printer copy of the 1936 car.
With one amendment: the scale — 1: 2, and printed only a few details.
Go into the details of the company were not only identified the presence of magic printer and voiced method of selective laser sintering (work with layers of powder material of high power lasers).
The material was used as the metal powder with the granules from 0.015 to 0.040 mm. The company said that instead can be used plastic, glass or carbon.
Later in the Audi hopes to use 3D-printers for sadness body panels, and then the whole car. But the timing, of course, too early to say.
