I love the colour, would love to see the tristars painted up like this again too!

Mainly for this sort of thing people convert jet fuel starters to turbojet with varying degrees of sucess (JFS100). A small turbojet could be a drone engine like the williams WR24 or CT3201, lots of small starters do not have continuous use oil systems so are no good. I think an air producer driving an air motor would be good as alot of the generator/air producer APU’s are desinged for prolonged use rather than single shots to start and aircraft. People have converted nimbuses to Turbojets too. Oh yes Gas turbines are also very easy to wreck if you dont know what your doing, plenty of videos on youtube to demonstrate that!!

Dave,
would be interested to know what you have got ‘spare’ too, unfortunately no money to buy anything but always interested to see what’s about.
Matt

The germans did standardise to a certain extent, altimeters, ASI’s, some tachos, and ladedruckmesser are the same diameter; then there are smaller pressure gauges that are that same diameter as each other too. On that site you will be able to find the RLM sheets for quite a few of the instruments and this will give you the diameters you need for your panel.

Matt

Lovely! I hope everything is as good as it looks, nothing worse than finding something that looks great for 99% only to find 1% is corrosion or damage in a critical position that makes a part not useable. Anymore photos?

Bottom of the prop blades, again just like our one of a 110 they have been split off in exactly the same way as yours!

As Bruce said, the use of original kit is most pleasing in this one, when I imagined these Flugwerk kits this is what I hoped most operators would do. The interesting thing is that 99% of german instruments are readily avaliable and cheaper than their modern day counterparts! (ok well perhaps not after they’ve been serviced but you get my point!) Good work on the paint Mark!

Not traditionally known for its aviation background?? Due to its remoteness and rugged terrain aviation has been at the forefront of our development and history since Richard Pearse left the ground in 1903, and in modern times has been the home of some of the best warbird restoration shops and air shows in the world -is that reason enough?

I’m going to have to agree with that, having trained in NZ, Aviation is massive out there and I seem to recall it has the highest ratio of pilots to population of any country