Your English is fine and your plane sounds like an engineering feat! I am always amazed at the incredible things modellers make from scale cockpits to engines so it is great to be part of it some way by making scale pilots. I don't have an engineering bone in my body , I leave that side of things to Richard but it's interesting to learn about it all the same. Actually it's quite a good combination with his technical skills and my more artistic ones and to be sharing the same interest is fantastic.

Doc, your Douglas Campbell will be a pleasure to make and probably could grace the cockpits of other WWI planes as well as yours. A flying suit would be much simpler as you say and a good start but I would eventually like to do him in that great dress uniform and any information on the colours of the WWI uniforms would be much appreciated from anyone.

I spent an enjoyable hour or so in Spotlight (sewers hobby shop ) looking for better fabric for Curtiss' pants and jacket, along with more stuff for MaeWests and US Pacific uniforms and even the beginning of Manfred's jacket. The material I had for Curtiss's suit was too bulky and wasn't pressing out nice and crisp which makes it look oversized and a bit toy like instead of bending and creasing realistically. I couldn't find what I wanted in greys so had to go with brown but I'm sure it will look fine, better than a bulky grey one anyway. I also found tape and crafters ribbon and all sorts of bits and pieces that could be used for straps and ties, I bet the girl hated serving me with little bits of this and that having to be measured and cut [:@]

We've been making plane moulds and laying up moulds the last couple of days so not as much sewing but back into it this weekend and now that I have material and the patterns pretty much sorted I can't wait.

The boots have been cut from wax so now I just need to mould and cast them and one hand has been cut to try the size of the grip to see if the steering wheel will slip into the hand. Richard cut a steering wheel from MDF from Bob's .dfx file and the hand will need a little adjusting in position and grip. The hand can't be a closed grip so I'm positioning the thumb slightly up leaving a gap to slip the steering wheel through. Clear as mud I know but once done the pictures will make some sense of it.

cheers
Patti