Museum quality is generally a reference to how any model is built rather than content. That said, there are few kits on the market that do not require enhancement of one form or another to bring them to a level of museum standard and accuracy, not forgetting the ability to produce such. The model also has RAF approval.
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For what it's worth I have replicated canvas strapping in various scales before and found the following to be a good sub -

Paint a square of cotton sheet in the required colour, making sure you have enough sheet for the job and also make sure the paint soaks through the sheet so the edges wont be white when cut.
The small weave on the sheet shows well through the paint and does look very much like canvas.

When dry paint the sheet in dilute PVA.

Allow to dry then with a scalpel and steel rule, slice the sheet up into strips of the required width depending on the size required.

The straps can then be folded and glued around buckles/ clasps made from the correct gauge wire.


Hope this helps,
Steve

The comment on twitter is from model space which from all I can see is De-Agostini, which I think all people reading would easily assume the comment is descriptive of there model. You say to voice my opinions to the supplier, that I am in the process of doing. You know yourself that the Spitfire model in 1/12 scale is virtually a one off and consequently finding anything to use after market is going to be hard, so my main point is that De-Agostini could surely have done a lot better for the subscribers in content than they have, you admit yourself that the colour is wrong on the seat, fair enough we can all paint it what we want but surely for the price it could have been done by supplier. All this will be going to De-Ag C/S in a moment so I am not popping at you I am just trying to voice my opinion and my disappointment on the forum which is what I thought it was for.

Well you will be happy to know no more of my opinions, subscription just cancelled, good luck to all who are building the Spit. I wish you all success.

i have no idea what the instructions say, but Mr T`s seat is constructed wrongly, the bit you sit on should be glue to the bottom of the sides and not the top, this will then form the bucket shape, no malice intended tomick

no argument here, just an opinion, here`s another pic

ok seems to be a few pondering on making a seat harness, Tomicks hands are tied with any alterations and must build the kit as is, so i had a go at this, see pics, will be doing a full tutorial

Hi Willz,

WTG seat looks good, that was fast work.

Only issue I can see is that the upper harness straps were not fitted to the seat, they were fitted over the protective plate behind the seat and through the main air frame.

I assume it`s the same as car seat belts today are fitted to the main car frame.

Hope this helps,

Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

thats correct Derek, there`s also a Y section where the top fixes to the back of the buckles and the bottom goes through the hole in the seat, but sometimes too much makes it look too busy and messy, i`m not personally doing this model but i like to do these small projects, as for the tutorial i think i`ll do it on the tutorial site thingy.

cheers Willz