Dear Clive + FLJ,
Thanks for the link to Hobbies of Dereham, I'll get some tissue from there and see how it goes. I'll see if the dope they sell is the J Perkins stuff, I did have a jar of it a while back. It was much thinner than the HMG stuff so soaked in better. I don't think the weather helped for the HMG dope, I used it outside on a very cold day. Is it better to thin the dope for the first few coats, please? Do you thin it in an old dope jar or put the thinners straight in the jar of dope? The brushes I use for doping the bristles fall out of so I have to keep getting new ones, does this happen to you?
I not so sure about children these days, I'm nine years younger than the boat plans I've used! This'll be my sixth boat when it's finished, I've got several half-built but somehow they never get finished! I don't mind the smell of dope, but using it indoors gives me a splitting headache. Even outdoors is a bit dicey.
Many thanks,
Christopher