Some things have been a bit hard to find in this whole process, so here’s a heads up on something that might help someone else out.

After a fair bit of searching, Scobie managed to find a source for adhesive ripstop (by the meter, not on 50mm tape rolls) to use for the rego letters, but this could also be handy for some DIY artwork.

North Sails
2 Vale St
St Kilda, Melbourne

Cost is $25/m for 1.8m rolls. We only need 0.5m for the rego letters so it works out pretty cheap.

Last Saturday (9th August) we cold/hot inflated our brand new homebuilt balloon, VH-XUP.
Everything went well and now we just need to get the Certificate of Airworthiness so we can start flying it.
Big thanks to not only the guys who helped us out on the morning to attach all the ropes/lines, but those who have been helping out through the whole process, special big thanks to Adam.

Not much more to say really, I will let the photos do the talking.
http://hotairballoon.ning.com/photo/album/show?id=699743:Album:85778