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It is unfortunately is with regret that I have decided today that EMD is no longer viable as a business, so have therefore decided to cease trading. The current EMD range of products will still be available in the future through Grey Matter Figures (GMF), so all queries should be directed to them (http://www.greymatterfigures.com/). This has not been an easy or light decision for me to make, but I shall still be active in producing master patterns in the future and I still have some EMD WIP patterns that will evenually find their way to GMF. Kindest regards and thanks for your support and understanding Derek Bradshaw

It is unfortunately is with regret that I have decided today that EMD is no longer viable as a business, so have therefore decided to cease trading. The current EMD range of products will still be available in the future through Grey Matter Figures (GMF), so all queries should be directed to them (http://www.greymatterfigures.com/). This has not been an easy or light decision for me to make, but I shall still be active in producing master patterns in the future and I still have some EMD WIP patterns that will evenually find their way to GMF. Kindest regards and thanks for your support and understanding Derek Bradshaw

Just working on these master patterns (in between others) at present. The Revell 1/32 BAe Hawk T.1 intakes are incorrect in terms of size (especially length) and shape, so my intention is to correct them. At first, I thought that I might have been able to correct the kit supplied items, but this turned out to be an epic fail (once the length was corrected, it was impossible to effect a satisfactory centre joint), so I have therefore resorted to scratch building a brand new set of intakes for the kit. The most notable problem with the Revell intakes is that they are almost 1"/25mm too long in length -this would effectively place the engine compressor in the middle of the combustion chamber on the full size engine! The other two issues is that the intake shape, although more or less correctly curved in side profile (which can best be described as Banana shaped' on the full size aircraft), has too much internal volume area (too large) - the other is the bifurctation of the the individual intakes where they join; this should be a straight 'knfe edge', not a curved/radius shaped joint. However; the fan is almost spot-on in size. The Kenetic 1/32 BAe Hawk 100, in comparison is much closer to the shape of the actual Hawk intake, being at least correctin overall length, but lacks the side curvature of the full size intakes, is a bit small as far as internal size is concerned and the bifurcation of the intakes where they join suffers from the same curved shapen as the Revell intakes as well as being incorrectly positioned (too far forward). Determining the correct location and shape relationship of the engine and intakes. Here you can see where I have marked the relative positions of the intake bifurcation joint (the 'knife edge', where the engine casing attached to the airframe intake and the position of the engine compressor fan. Close up of above details. Similar locations indicated on the plan view of the aircraft. Close up of details.