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My first WIP post here as I usually frequent another forum but have decided to diversify; this might amuse some of you on here. A couple of years ago I set about making a 1/1 scale ejection seat to use in my modelling room - not to eject through through the roof mind but as a chair to sit on and use. I started off with the base of my old office chair which has a height adjuster built in, so like a demented squirrel in later Summer I started scavenging around for household items which might be of use. I also went to the local Homebase and bought some MDF sheet. I'm no engineer so the whole project was to be measured by eye and guesswork, here's how it progressed: The office chair base provided a deal of structural strength for the build and allowed for the ejector seat to literally be built from the bottom up. You can see the black lever to raise or lower seat. Most of the carcass was MDF or stripwood but my workroom was filling up fast all sorts of really useful - crap: You get the idea. The seat I was trying to copy was the Martin Baker GRU-7A as found in the Grumman F-14A Tomcat. Above is the mdf marking out for the top of the seat parts and this is it cut out: I also bought shares in Evergreen plastic or at least it seemed like it. A pair of combats cut and sewed to mimic the drogue chute as seen from above the headrest. The actual build was enjoyable what wasn't fun was the traipsing around a local car boot sale and buying rather dubious and suspect clothing items which could be used. The foam was bought from good old fleabay.