Two more wrecks in my yard

[rob love]

I personally prefer the earlier mk1 over the refined mk2. The kit stowage on a mk1 is great; there is a bracket and a place for everything.

The mk1 armor will not be exactly the same as the mk2 carrier. Why not re-rivit a replica armor plate to the one side of the mk1 hull, sandblast and paint the bare hull, then start transferring the running gear etc from the mk2 to the mk1? There will be some minor differences like the oil filter, but nothing insurmountable.

The early aircleaners are far more difficult to find than the later style. The early one was only used on the first few thousand, and as they failed were retrofitted with the later style. I have only seen remnants of these, never a complete one.