Found these pictures whilst moving stuff about the reloading room.
(See this thread for the mess: Aieeee!!! This is progress? )
Just a few reminders of the madness back in the late '90s. This P40 late won the Phoenix award at Oshkosh. I reckon it's still flying. Everything you see on the fuselage tail subassembly was made new. The firewall was also all new except for the engine mounts and the plumbing pass through plate. I primarily made attach fittings and tooling, but I also got into some of the sheet metal forming and riveting.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...d7aa6b27-1.jpg
Just noticed that there's two tail subassemblies in this photo! And a chunk of old forward upper fuselage in the right background sitting on a couple of stools. Lower firewall is on left foreground and the upper dominates the right foreground. Upper fuselage jig in back of the firewall jigs.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...57b31ea3-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...48d058dc-1.jpg
John Hassard looking at the "just pulled out of the assembly jig" fuselage tail subassembly.
The armor plate on the floor was original.