The 1st/2nd season front nose was the first part that I started to create. It's
  one of the most difficult parts to create I think, because you have to pay
  a lot of attention to all the body lines of the car. I took the challenge to
  build it myself, and maybe by showing the whole process of how I have
  created the front nose will give you or others also the same inspiration
  that I had to build your own front nose

  
This is how I started, I made a rough model from wire-netting by bending it, till it had the shape in it I wanted. After that, I used paper mâché to make the model more visible.

The result was an ugly looking shark nose. It was way to long, but that didn't matter, because it was still only a rough model. 

I used the rough model as an example to make the front nose from wood, but in the mean while I made some changes to it, because I didn't wanted to have a second shark nose.

The wooden front nose was totally different then the rough model. After a while working on the front nose, I still didn't liked the way it looked.

The first thing I did was breaking the wooden model apart, so I could start all over again with the design. First I placed all the wooden parts on the car. 

After that, I began taping them to each other. Once the model had the right shape, I glued them to each other and started to work on the sides. 

After the glue was dry, I could remove all the tape. 

I used filler for wood to make a better shape in the front nose, and also to paint it. This way I could make the surface smoother. 

This is how the front nose looked after I had put filler on it. I made the turn signal blackout openings open, so I could make the edges nice straight.

A good view of the side. The shape already started to look very good.

I closed the turn signal blackouts again, and 
also changed the corners a little again. 

I installed  the front nose on the car, to see if the expression was correct. I had painted it, but I didn't had enough paint anymore, so that's why the corners are still white.

I still had to make the side of the bottom, as you can see.

I made some small changes and closed the side of the bottom. I still had to work on the white areas, so I didn't painted them yet. The area between the turn signal blackouts and the scanner opening needed the most attention (I used the extra battery to run the scanner).

The body lines from the car with the front nose on it already started to look pretty good. I couldn't install  the front nose properly, because it didn't had any good mounting edges inside. I made some simple ones from wood, so I could mount the front nose to the fenders. This way it could not fall off the car.

I had painted the front nose again, because that 
was the only way to see how the shape really was.

I also mounted the scanner to see how the front nose looked with the scanner in it. The sizes of the scanner opening were of course very important, but I didn't used the scanner to decide the correct sizes, but the lines in the hood. Also the turn signal blackout openings, where I had made a copy from, had to be the same as the original factory bumper, so they decided the sizes already for the most part.

The paint job didn't went very well, because
there were a lot of glossy areas on it.

I closed the spaces between the car and the 
front nose, so it would fit better.

I still didn't liked the height of the top side the front nose, so I made it higher. I glue some wooden board on the whole top side, and after that, I used wood filler to make the surface nice smooth again.

This is how the result looked after I had made the whole top side higher. 

I also made the scanner opening smaller, because it was to big. 

I still had to change the corners a little, so that's why I didn't put wood filler on them yet. 

I mounted the fog lights in the grill openings this time, to see how it looked, but also to check or the sizes of the grill openings were exactly like I wanted them to be. 

A good view of the side of the front nose.

After I had changed the corners, I repainted the front nose again. 

I repainted the front nose many times, just to check of 
all the lines and the model were correct.

Every time I still noticed little things that I had to change. 

In the time I was creating the front nose, I have taken many photos from it, because this way I could compare my front nose with photos from the original one.

I also tried to take the photos from exactly the same location, as where the photos from the original front nose were taken from. This was even a better way to check the model I was making.

It had to have the same expression of course, 
otherwise it would not get the right look.