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TO ALL COMMENT POSTERS – I’M NOT IGNORING YOU! Sorry I can’t reply – youtube’s comment system won’t allow me to reply – all I get is “error, try again?” ————– @Allibow Thanks! A 10m2, with no colour changes, would take about 20 to 30 hours – though, I have a lot of experience & know the pitfalls to avoid. If you’re new to it I imagine it’ll take at least twice that long. If you want details of how to do it have a look at this thread I ran on kitecrowd: forum.kitecrowd.com Also, here’s my latest kite making film – this time a 12m2 Manta M3: www.youtube.com —————- This is the is the latest, and last, in my series of Calvin & Hobbes kites, and it’s taken me near on six months, on and off. At times I felt my spirits flagging, thinking I’d taken on too complex a design on too small a kite. I had this design in mind from the very start, way back when I was building the kite featured in my first kite making film (check out my vimeo channel for more kiting films vimeo.com ) but the complexity was daunting and I didn’t feel able to tackle it back then. I’m glad I waited. I learned a lot making those earlier Calvin & Hobbes kites; filming and writing about the process helped too – and so, back at the start of 2010 I started work on this one. Strictly speaking it’s not a Calvin & Hobbes kite, as Hobbes doesn’t appear, and Calvin’s appearance is a brief daydream. In typical Calvin fashion he’s ignoring his teacher whilst sitting as his school desk; instead of the …