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April 22, 2015 at 8:15 pm in reply to: Another Projects Wanted List, & Parts To Swap #847024

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Hello, I have the following instruments for sale or exchange as I continue with my Spitfire replica build. I am looking for cockpit items either original or replica. Things like the spitfire gun sight bulbs and holder or the crowbar for example. other items are things like the start button or the fuel pump primer. Not other instruments.
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March 6, 2015 at 7:06 pm in reply to: Mk1 Anson Projects #885494

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As a matter of interest how much does it cost for an Anson fuselage similar to the ones mentioned on David’s post above?

February 25, 2015 at 8:02 pm in reply to: Westland Wyvern Project Thread. #891444

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I am with you and much prefer to see the original parts as they are found. I have been collecting parts for my latest project and plan on doing exactly the same. Hopefully I can replace more of the newer parts that I have made with the original parts that I acquire along the way.

February 25, 2015 at 7:01 pm in reply to: Westland Wyvern Project Thread. #891591

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Rob, are you going to paint the original parts that you have collected, or conserve them and keep them in the condition that you have found them in with original paint (if applicable) etc?

February 9, 2015 at 7:59 am in reply to: Spitfire low to high back #906037

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I think TE311 a Mk16 Spitfire owned by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight was temporarily modified from a low back to a high back for the Battle of Britain Film. In that case and as it was a static or ground run only I think they just added new top frame parts and metal sheeting and not completely new frames as previously mentioned. I am making a Mk16 low back replica for my next Spitfire as I like the shape and also some original parts are easier and slightly cheaper to get hold of than for earlier Spitfires.

February 4, 2015 at 8:11 am in reply to: Spitfire Parts #911490

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I noticed that Graham Adlam on the Spitfire Spares site had some of the metal tail formers and parts for sale but I didn’t know that somebody had actually supplied tail parts as a kit a few years ago. That would save some work.

January 7, 2015 at 7:28 pm in reply to: Mk1 Spitfire Build – Help Needed #854575

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Excellent work and well done team. Great photos of the tail section and the fuselage formers. I wish when I did wood work at school that we built something like this, rather than an egg rack

January 6, 2015 at 2:06 pm in reply to: How do you make a fuselage frame? #856268

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the you tube clip is excellent and thank you for sharing it. What I do on my frames is measure the frames from my blueprints onto a piece of ply/mdf and then use these screwed in 90degree angles that I got for making radio control aeroplane fuselages on large graph paper and then transpose these to make the jigs shape for the parts I am making. Cut out the parts for the ribs, or frames as appropriate and then screw/glue rivet them together to make the frame shape I want from that. Hopefullyif I have got the maths right I’ll end up with accurate frames.

There is a down and dirty way, which is measure and draw or even enlarge a photocopy of the frame drawing and stick it onto the wood/ metal and cut it out although accuracy might suffer as a result.

December 29, 2014 at 9:09 pm in reply to: Typhoon Project for sale #862529

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It would be amazing for two things to happen:
The first is that I win the lottery and secondly that I win enough to buy this wonderful Typhoon recreation. The sheer amount of work and money that goes into amassing enough parts to make such an amazing fuselage in the first place and then the skill in putting it altogether. Quite superb

December 10, 2014 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Spruce plywood source? #876390

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Thanks Sopwith that’s great.

December 10, 2014 at 7:02 pm in reply to: Spruce plywood source? #876401

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Hi, I have a query regarding spruce which I hope somebody can help with. I have got a number of lengths of spruce some of the longest are 17ft long x 4inches square with various lengths in between all 4 inches square. I read somewhere that in order to find out if it is suitable for a flying aeroplanes I need to measure water content and the grain per inch. Is that correct?

November 26, 2014 at 1:24 pm in reply to: Hurricane Assembly drawings/blueprints #891073

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Hi keith,

Sadly no Hurricane blueprints that are suitable for a flying replica but what an interesting project. I’ve constructed large radio control models and I have been making a full size static replica Spitfire and often thought that apart from the aircraft grade plywood and spruce that I have used the airframe structure is basically the same as a flying aeroplane less engine, hydraulics etc.

I’ve read the Clive Du Cros and the Haynes Spitfire restoration manual but is making a Hurricane or an SE5a as a flying aircraft as difficult as I perceive it to be in my head with lots of paper work and hoops and loops to go through before you get anywhere?

November 4, 2014 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Spitfire tail drawings #910475

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I will have a look through my collection of general arrangement drawings as I do have some for the tail section that I used when making my replica.

October 14, 2014 at 7:43 pm in reply to: Hawker Typhoon parts. #927512

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Hi, It’s a very early photo of the next aeroplane and currently comprises of one frame, but as with the first Spitfire I made you have to start somewhere. [ATTACH=CONFIG]232398[/ATTACH]
Managed to find a photograph of my first Spitfire in the early stages of contruction. Plywood was used to make the frames.[ATTACH=CONFIG]232432[/ATTACH]

October 11, 2014 at 12:19 pm in reply to: Replicas and reproductions #928864

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I can’t remember the exact specification now but have a vague idea that it was to be mounted on a trailer as a display item. I would have loved to have given it a go.
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