The properly repaired and refinished part is far more “original” to the airframe than an NOS part, newly cast copy or machined replacement. I’m currently restoring a wartime truck and it is now impossible to obtain many of the types and sizes of screws and fastenings used 80 years ago. It would have been very easy to grind off bolts and replace with modern or metric equivalents, but where possible fastenings have been carefully separated, if necessary threads recut and bolts retapped, before cleaning up on a wire wheel. Surely the aim in any restoration is to maintain originality as much as possible-subject to safety.

If the red paint doesn’t work, try Tamiya Clear Red paint. It’s a tint rather than a solid colour. I needed to make some red reflectors for a trailer t-plate. Cast them in clear resin, painted the back in mirror paint and the front with the Tamiya paint. Also available in green, blue or amber if required.

What’s going on with this site. Always issues, no wonder a lot of old regulars no longer post on this shambles of a forum. Not able to start new threads, not now able to go to the last page of a long thread such as the Meier Motors thread, have to scroll through 50 odd pages to get there, life’s too short. Only able to post to existing threads. Somebody please sort this out before the forum withers and dies on the stem……..

A post about this vandalism at Dunsfold had already been made – see page 2. Perhaps sensible to combine the two

It would be. Regrettably in the brief time I have today I am unable to locate the ‘merge’ function in this version of the forum software. I’ll take a look tomorrow – Moggy

Has anyone told them they’re a bit late for Halloween

Wonder if they are going to reproduce one of the two Snake Stukas…….cue debate about the colours of the snake if that’s the case and whether it was painted on both sides of the airframe:D

Somebody lend them a bucket and spade and they can recover the P38 at the same time