Latest news, I spent 20 hours of Thursday night/Friday demolishing the Spitfire. The end of an era. All the sold parts have been shipped off and for the first time in years Moody Blue is completely unserviceable.
Looking at the bare walls gives some idea of what the finished early Spitfire I will look like...no Remote Contactor or destruction gear, no Deice pump, cock or piping, no oxygen valve (a valve on the bottle behind the seat only), the panel stripped of switches and only a total of 4 to go back in plus the three way rotary for charge regulation. But the hand pump for the undercarriage will look all the more spectacular for it....
I have plan for the canopy latch coming and will be putting a full canopy on the new build, minus front windscreen. The new build will be constructed all the way back to the just in front of the radio mast.
Finally, the Oxygen Regulator will become fully functional with tap and gauges, the proper rectangular gauges for oil pressure and fuel pressure will be implemented with gears and the rest of the panel will match a proper Spitfire I config much more closely.
All 2000 rivets have arrived and on Tuesday I go to the sheet metal supplier to get 5 square meters of 1mm aluminium.
So now I just need the personal "weather" to break and I can seriously start to build the "ultimate" version of the sim!!