January 2008

Well this month has seen us tackle the rear framework and as can probably be seen this was quite a complex task. Whilst the lovely curves of an RT may be pretty to look at they are quite a nightmare to make! Fortunately most of the metal work had survived quite well and was taken off cleaned, protected and put back on thus helping us to ensure that the distances and angles were all correct. We brought out the rear blind box and rear seat area to use what remained for patterns as well as the aforementioned metal work and will reuse most of the remainder once we come to fit the blindbox and rear seat area, which has can be seen is not in bad shape. So this next month will see us work our way towards the front. The first job will be to make a few of the roof ribs and ensure that we have the correct size and angles as this is an area where a number of the drawings are missing for and any small error we have made earlier will be highlighted at this point. As long as all is well then we will tackle the front framework. Next update will be around February 5 subject of course to there being progress to show at that time!