You should try Terry Arlow he of “Simply Spitfire” fame, has a complete mkIX and a mk IIA under way, and has quite a bit of film work under his belt also.

Rocketeer, what about your mkV cockpit, is that an early mk or a late one?

originally I made my wing booms out of steel, (on a cost basis) very strong but you can barely carry two spars on their own! I’m now in the process of making new ones from alloy, it is unfortunate but my then metal supplier told me that the 2 1/2″ box was unavailable in either steel or alloy which isn’t actually the case; I reckon what with all of the reverse engineering and repair work, I will have done nearly twice the work!

You get those high back/low back drawings mixed up, there’s gonna be trouble!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]224161[/ATTACH]Thankyou guys, and a happy new year to you both.

I do seriously wonder where the last ten years have gone, but then again, the two years I spent in Suffolk yielded one weeks work, ironic considering one of the primary reasons for moving there, was a building big enough to complete the build!

Seen loaded (yet again) onto the trailer for the return journey to the promised land (Essex) you can still see the accident damage on the fuel tank cover and cockpit side, the extent of which required a new tank cover to be made.

Did they include the tail parts that you once mentioned to me?[ATTACH=CONFIG]224143[/ATTACH] One thing that has eluded me for ten years is a decent spade grip, might have to bite the bullet this year!

Cheers Ross, here’s a couple more taken today now the light has returned![ATTACH=CONFIG]224139[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]224140[/ATTACH]

Once slightly uncharitably described as ” a collection of industry cast-offs, with the bare bones of a Merlin” by our resident spitfire expert, it now incorporates a substantial amount from one single A/C that force landed (not crashed) in Germany in ’44, and as such now uses that identity.

Thankyou all for your kind words.

There aren’t any normal forum members, but this is definately looking like a job for Fred Lock…..