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Yea , the other guy is David Glen ;-) https://www.warbirdsinmyworkshop.net/spitfire-mki-gallery

Mine are 1000 wide which is a std Nikon Studio resize , as uploaded from the camera they are 28.3 MB each (6000 x 4000) RAW :-)

Yes they did release a version in Yellow with the spare.

I presume your latest version (35B) is the one with lights ?. I have that as well so its going to be really interesting to follow your build. I have also had to produce pictures of a minimum of 2000px so i always save a set in 1000px as well for BB's,

ha ha yes anyone who has built a MFH will know its very easy to spend hours on these kits and have nothing to show. :)

We just wanted to see your cable car ?

Something i haven't seen before is this Norton has an adjustable positioning system on the gearbox. Its obvious i supose on a pre unit engine that you would need to tension the primary drive chain and they did this by simply moving the gear box back. Disadvantage would be you woiuld then need...

Its been one of those days today, its rained from Dawn to Dusk, i left my boots outside last night and even they are full of water now. Upshot is i stripped the Norton oil tank yesterday and got the decals on before bed so when i lacquered it this morning i had more success and the black lines...

I would guess that their lathe was designed by someone who had never used a lathe. Commercially available 8mm tipped tools are to long for the 8mm tool post There is no adjustment to centre the tail stock to the chuck so you can turn parallel other than the gibs. unfortunately they also use the...

I machined of quite a bit off the post clamp which adds 5mm to the throat depth Agree about style over substance, i bought their mini lathe and it was quite useless and sold it again on on Ebay within a week.

When you build your Manx take extra care, the 2 side plates that run from the crankcases back and hold the gearbox are not symmetrical and hold the gearbox about 10 degree off line. Put the primary drive chain on from crank to box and use that to position the box and not the locating pins.

They actually added an X-Y cross slide this week for the drill. My only criticism of the drill is they could have made the through a little deeper as the movement of the multi adjustable vice is very limited and its almost impossible to centre their own indexing head...

i built this a couple of years ago and i was thinking , after my cut away Fiat ,l what about a bit of a re design of this thing. , super paint finish, mud guards/fenders, lights, some better wheels, Some chrome etc :) You may wonder why i am repeating old builds but remember i auctioned off all...

You can see here i need to completely finish the oil tank as its sandwiched between the frame halves. It could go in after the frame is joined but its going to be a real fiddle and its risks damaging the paint. You can see here on this mock up Happy with the crank case colour, in the end its...

almost embarrassed to say i bought another one of these MFH bikes. This one is half pushbike :-) but i console myself in that i get these things cheaper than anywhere else, they retail here in the UK at £480, discounted to £420 and i paid £290 :-)

My god this thing is crude to the extreme, i would imagine a fair proportion of these things wind up in the bin by page 2 of the useless instructions 🤣 Anyway it would probably be boring if it was easy but sometimes these days i do dream of Tamiya . Todays problem is probably my fault but, what...

You seem to be settling in well Nick, I can see you could cost a few of us a lot of money.......... (note to self....you dont need a 4 axis...repeat every 10 minutes :-) )

I love the shape of those early Spits, they started to lose that after the Mk V ... enjoying the update :-)

Sounds like you got it a a good price. Of course you dont actually have top use the engine in the Tamiya build. I just hear a lot about how good the Kotare is but haven't seen anyone have a smooth build or turn out anything better than the Tamiya ? That said i am just throwing thoughts out there...

I am surprised to see the flaps fixed ? coupled with the lack of engine its hard to see where they got the price from compared to the Tamiya kit ? Admittedly they are different Mk's