Ok, I'll get onto scanning some B+W I have of the period, and email them to you in the next couple of days. I'm also trying to track down good Soviet,Japanese and RAF too!

Cheers, Neil

I'm currently trying to track down more ref. photos from the era.

I have plenty of Black and White, but few colour. Would these still be os assistance in the project?

Please let me know, and I will e-mail them to you later.

Cheers, MP.

Wow! That is a comprehensive list. Thanks in advance for any effort you put into this.

Can I ask a question though? Will the clothing be detachable individually, or is the model a complete figure with all clothing attached?

My only reason for the question is that the Oxygen Mask would be nice to have fixed to the face, but also detachable to hang to the side, and the Goggles would be nice toihave across the eyes, but also pulled up above the eyebrow line resting on the flying hat.

Is that an possible?

Thanks again, really looking forward to seeing the results, MP.

Hi Patrick. I have sent you a mail. Thanks for the reply, cheers, MP.

Thanks for the quick reply, but it's RAF and also the wrong type of clothing. Maybe I need to make the request clearer, my apologies.

I'm looking for a clothing set (flightsuit)  which is the type they wore during combat in dogfights, not military dress they would have worn in the mess.

So it's the flying suit, Goggles, Flying Helmet (again usually leather), Parachute and May West air vest.
The best example of the items required are in the top three pictures of this link and also the last picture in the link (uniform on left). This is exactly what I am looking for.

www.303rdbg.com/uniforms-gear-fighter.html

Others for reference to see what it loooked like in WW2:

www.elknet.pl/acestory/blake/blake.htm

Headware:

www.leisuregalleries.com/boyingtonpb.html

May West:

www.leisuregalleries.com/boyingtonp.jpg

General pix:

http://www.leisuregalleries.com/aajohnsonJ.jpg

images.google.co.uk/imgres

P-51 Pilot image:

images.google.co.uk/imgres

Excellent links. Thankyou guys. Anyone else provide a good link. Really ecellent posts though, thanks again.