After painting, more sanding and lots of swearing (off mum), we made a start on making some copy signage. The escape arrow itself wasn’t too bad to make, along with the hatching across the small rescue panel, but we found the lettering to be much harder and out of our range, so dad found a place in Oldham who made some rescue lettering.
We then found an ejection sticker on eBay, and with us painting the darker grey stripes ourselves, the cockpit was coming together.
The trip to Newark Cockpit Fest was a first for us, dad mum and myself had a great day, being new to the cockpit world we were a bit hesitant of how people would react, and also it gave us an idea of how things looked for when, hopefully I can take mine down next year.
At the show we found Simon (Tonker) who as always made us feel very welcome, so all in all a great day.
More to follow.............
Hi, looking superb!!!
ReplyDeleteDo you have an id for the aircraft that this nose has come from?
Also....being VERY nosey....no pun intended, where in Huyton are you please? I live there too and would love to get a couple of shots myself!!!
John