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Originally Posted by MrTin

Hello all,
I've just joined, Heaven knows how I've missed this resource for so long.

I'm a modelmaker by trade, but a frustrated body basher by inclination and, now, intent.
I have no garage, a small workshop, the bits of an Austin 7 Cambridge Special Sports, needing the body repairing and bits renewing with a Coventry Climax FWM engine and I've just picked up an unmissable selection of bits which will make into a Burlington Baretta plans car, only it occurred to me that it would look so nice built as an Airline Coupe, so I must be mad.
I can't afford courses in coachbuilding, dammit, so it's DVDs, including David Gardner's excellent production, you tubes and intuition. If I can do it in miniature with copper, I figure I can do it with ally for real.
I have the tools, the nearby use of a good English wheel, etc. but no gas welding gear (yet), but I am convinced I can make the shapes.

So, that's me, glad to be here.
My username is the result of constant mis-spelling when I was in the Piper Club GRP, aarghh!!) and it kind of stuck and seemed vaguely suitable.

Cheers,
Martin

You might be forgiven for the Piper Cub things, so "Welcome, Martin!"Start, darn it!.jpg