Absolutely Peter. The 1/4 size body is done and in use along with the 1/6 and 1/5 sized bodies. The 1/3 body mould is half made with the 40% to come and possibly 50% as well.


I'm currently working on the uniforms for the RAF Spitfire pilot and imagine that a lot of that would be the same for your Tempest pilot? If you can send me a pic of the exact uniform that would be helpful. For the RAAF Darwin pilot, the uniform would be like Eric and Tom were wearing up in Mareeba and New Britain wouldn't it? I'll attach the pic of Eric again so you can see. Tom tells us that because it was so hot up there he didn't wear the flying cap, just the radio headset and they used the American Mae Wests as the British ones were too bulky and hot. If you're doing the Grey Nurse you'd be wanting Bobby Gibbs wouldn't you?

I am making the US life vests next, so that can easily be put onto the RAAF pilot, just mix and match.

For the North African RAF pilot, I'm afraid I haven't looked into that uniform much at all but from the little bits I've seen it was very similar to the Darwin RAAF, with shorts instead of long pants. Is that right? What colour was it? Again, if you can send me details of that I can help you out. A lot of the uniforms are similar in pattern but just a change of colour so things will start to move along quicker as I gather my database of patterns.

I have no idea what the Russians on the Eastern Front wore but by the time you get that one nearly built you can let me know the details of that uniform and I should be able to help out there too.

Basically, they can all be mixed and matched - I'm doing a Corsair pilot for Richard and Pappy wore a B1 life vest but if he wanted Ira Kepford he could just change the head on the body and change the life vest to a B4 but the rest of the uniform would be the same.

We'll be going to some of the SCAF (Southern Cross Air Force) "do's" in the near future so will be able to do a show and tell and find out what the guys are after. Might see you there

Happy building

cheers
Patti