Biggles87

Thanks @TonyTiger91 the flag is just my way of showing some moral support, I’m afraid I’m a bit too long in the tooth for anything more these days. Well done to you for a more practical effort. John 🇺🇦

I used an Aeromaster sheet for my checkerboards and they worked well, sorry I can’t show you it didn’t come to France with me. John. 🇺🇦

every time you cough

Well said Duncan, I stopped buying Chinese made kits a few years and avoid other items from that part of the world. It’s very difficult to stick to because some Japanese items, like washing machines are now made in China. Hope this isn’t considered too political but it’s the way I feel. John 🇺🇦

I’m going to use the moulded on belts and just thin them a little from seat to frame. We had a Slingsby Eagle in the Dorset Gliding Club which had a Sutton harness and the belts were much thicker than the more modern types. John 🇺🇦 PS: I probably won’t do the rigging either, that would probably add another couple of weeks to an already painfully slow build.

Nice work on the Spitfire. The cockpit decals are very time consuming but well worth the effort, I’m just about to assemble the frames etc onto the floor. John

with day-glo orange cuffs ( I kept a pair of striped flared trousers and a paisley patterned long collared shirt for many years, SWMBO threw them out when we moved to rural France where they would have been the height of fashion 20 years ago. )

You’ve probably all heard this before but it was said that the P-47s cockpit was so big that if the pilot got bored on a long escort mission he could get up and stroll around for a while! John. 🇺🇦

Me too! The only problem with sitting in the front row is you tend to get asked questions and you can’t nod off without it being noticed. It’s a nice kit if I remember rightly. John. 🇺🇦

Nice pictures of a late Mk1 cockpit. The item below the remote contacter is a height and airspeed calculator which I believe was deleted after the Mk1 so don’t be tempted to make one. Nice pipework. John 🇺🇦

without fear of regurgitation ( Wow, a five syllable word, hope I don’t get a penguin for that. )

Bessie Braddock labour MP ( oh sorry, I thought you said posterior )

I came back from a dog walk through one of our fields last week and it was covered with animal tracks. When we had horses there we still used to see deer in it especially when the hunters were around, because the dogs would usually stay away. John

Welcome @Antoine, yes do join the club. That’s what I call a deer, they are mostly Roe deer in these parts but occasionally we do see bigger ones. John. 🇺🇦

First grass cut of the year this afternoon then took Ursino for his usual 20min dash before his tea. We were just coming up to what used to be our largest horse field ( now owned by a neighbour who’s planting trees ) when something caught my eye and there were three deer in there munching away happily. I’d like to think that they were the three who visited our garden last year as there were two slightly smaller than the third, fortunately Ursi didn’t see them and the wind was in the right direction so I did not have to fight an excited 40kg beast. John