Hi from the Fens

[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

[crystallographic]

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

[HEATNBEAT]

Hi Martin and welcome!

[galooph]

Welcome to the forum, Martin

[David Gardiner]

Hello Martin, welcome to the forum, I am glad you like the DVD so much.

David

[Richard Lennard]

Loved the pull cord start on the plane!
Doesnt bear thinking about - cord breaking.
Welcome to the forum.
There are several UK members now who either know very little, thats me, and the aficionados, one of whom does an exceedingly good video, as you have already mentioned.

[MrTin]

Thanks for the welcomes, gents.

Kent, I should have written Piper Sports and Racing Car Club, hence the GRP reference.

However, I have flown a friend's Piper Cub, quite illegally, as I have no pilot's licence, but he was with me at the time, allowing me to take off, fly around four circuits and land. What a lovely old plane they are.

The car was pretty nice, too!

Cheers,
Martin

PS, David, I watch the DVD constantly and did again only yesterday. I'm currently looking for a tree stump! But in the Fens we don't have many mature trees, the region's not that old!

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi Martin welcome to the forum
Peter