Thanks, would be interested to see the instrument panel close up. It looked to be a very complete metal example in Britain at War.

I’m not sure Elliott, I thought he was selling a wrongly numbered bit of Spit but that is a different seller! ‘From a private collection in London’? From a box of random bits in my shed which the labels have fallen off more likely. Pick a history, any history.

The price for cutting was just that. The challenge is producing the CAD drawings. I worked from a tracing of a B2 panel (Thanks Jack Ruskin) and measured B1 gauges for size. The panel was then prototyped on a low power laser cutter in card and then in acrylic to test the fit. There are always problems. When I was finally happy with the drawings I emailed them to Dragon Laser and less than a week later picked up cut 3mm ally. Despite all the checking I had still drawn the climb/descent and turn/slip about 7mm too close. My fault not theirs and easily rectified by hacksawing the adjuster screw off the bottom of the gauge:o.
If you can get the drawings done as a .DXF file I’ll cut them out in card so you can check them against instruments before committing to metal. Dragon might well be able to do this for you as part of the service.
Bence, if you check ebay there may be some 109 repro labels listed. Can’t put a link at the moment.

Ju88 C?

Spent the Easter hols fiddling with the B1 panel. It will get a prettier more portable mount one day, the current version being a bit Heath Robinson from spare garden wood. Still looking for ‘Indicator, DF Bearing type 1630′ top left and the fuel flow indicator 6A/4252’ bottom left on the copilot’s side. The one fitted is just a hole filler. Even a clear photo would be useful. Next job is countersinking all the holes, making a couple of labels and spraying.

The ones I saw were a lot more than £250! Graham had his Lysander grip which is rather lovely. Was that a D type grip Junk Collector? Stick up a pic!

An excellent day out and splendidly organised as ever. Thanks Andy! Despite getting up at 5 AM I fear the real bargains had gone whilst I was still on the M25. Brought back two boxes less stuff than I took which was a de-clutter result. Also had more money than I went with and that Comet yoke. Met some old friends and made some new ones. Was hoarse with talking by the end of the day. Finished off with a visit to the excellent Wings museum and got a lump of Lancaster handsomely signed. Thanks to the Hunt brothers for their hospitality, very impressed!