Best of luck Graham, is there much more to do before then?

Nearly there now just elevators to paint, add Kill markings and aircraft serial re-fit the BFP, the K Gass has developed another leak but she seems to start fine without it. Has a few minor water leaks, nothing serious. Have still to Fit the aireal and mirror, probably another twenty small jobs i have forgotten.:eek:

Spitfire debu

My Replica spitfire will be making Her debu appearance at British Armed Forces & Veterans Weekend

Venue: Hylands Park Estate, Old London Rd, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 8WQ

On the 27th and 28th of June with engine runs at 2pm and 4pm on both days.

Please come and say hello if you are there.:)

More paint

Have finished the roundels, added the maple leaf and the Wing Comanders pennant. There seems to be some argument about wether the maple Leaf should be green or red, could not find a definative answer so chose red, we made the stencils ourselves, three masks for the wing Comander penant, never realised how long all the masking would take then of coarse you have to wait for the paint to dry before masking again and adding the next colour. So far it has taken two of us two weeks just to mask and paint. One wing is complete but my pack of dogs decided it was a good time to play on the wing, luckily for them the paint was hard and so just have a load of muddy footprints to clean off.:rolleyes:

This is a superb project Graham, well done thus far! She certainly looks the part. Very keen to see her running and moving around under her own power. One little nitpick – as this is a Mk.VIII, doe you have a broad chord, pointed rudder to be fitted? And doors for the tailwheel?

I must say that even in primer she really does look like a “real” Spit. Oh for the money, I’d sign up for one and get it over here pronto…

Daz – where does one find information on this flying replica for sale?

Thks she was molded from a real MK VIII so should be correct in appearance not withstanding my MODS. GB do offer a rudder option. I am not really happy with the tail wheel arrangement but it was a real mission getting enough strength into it to be turned by the rudder pedals although i am going to look at it again and try and improve its appearance. As I could not find a suitable British MK VIII she will now be painted as a MK IX as i understand there is no real difference in appearance other than the retracting tail wheel.

“Although you are looking at around 20K for a bog standard sit on the lawn and look pretty model,”

Or buy an ex BoB Film Hurricane for 8K, for sale in the back of Flypast.
Any info on this one, where ect.

Well there are Replicas and replicas, I dont know anything about the B of B replicas sounds like a bargain at 8K. One thing I will say is that apart from the UC GB Spits are imensely strong, you can jump up and down on the wing tip without anything moving, mine has had a a 750Kg engine welded onto the front without any problems from the original frame. 😀