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Thanks! The decals really behaved very nicely - I was a bit concerned about how I’d get on with the stripes on the tail as I had to bend the 1st one round a lot of angles to cover the top, trailing and bottom edges and the 2nd I had to apply and then trim in situ. I had visions of them tearing but they went on beatifully and conformed well with a bit of teasing and microsol. Only thing I’d suggest is to make sure you trim any of their extraneous lettering or lines away as I left a line thinking it’d be no bother but it broke up into very fine bits floating on the water surface.

Some solid progress Overpainted the Texas ANG markings Depending on the viewing angle these are more or less visible Added the Costa Rican decals And started adding the rest of the bits and pieces ready to enter the final straight

Yesterday saw the cockpit about ready to be hidden forever A bit of an experiment in applying decals between metallic coats to get some shine through I think that might work so the Mustang gets a metallic coat and the ersatz Texas ANG markings get applied The text of the X is a bit thin but as it is all getting painted over I hope I’ll get away with it

While I’ve been pottering away with the cockpit (1 broken control column while removing it from sprue, 2 trips to the floor to retrieve aforesaid column, 1 unforseen superglue/hand incident) I’ve been having a proper look at the pictures of the real thing. The Costa Rican markings and aluminium paint don’t quite cover the previous owner’s markings so I’ve raided the spares for Texas National Guard markings which hopefully will show through the final coat and add some more character

Kit from Jadlam with decals and research materials very kindly donated by @badger

Gorgeous

I’d been thinking along vulture lines as well - nice progress Still musing on 4 or 5mm length hair trimmings for proto-feathers (maybe not stuck on individually though)

Reconstructive leg surgery is still ongoing but have slapped some primer on the rest of her/him to see where I am without the distraction of different substrates

As promised - a bit of rain = a bit of progress Some trial legs to check the pose sketched on paper and then stuck to card And then started making a more permanent pair in styrene sheet, sprue and polyfilla Still working on getting the arm and leg position right

Interesting article on a twist to radar to detect stealth designs - my physics isn’t good (or up to date) enough to critique https://www.popsci.com/china-quantum-radar-detects-stealth-planes-missiles

Thanks - I knew from the pff that this was going to be a pigs ear of a base kit. Good weather has meant I’ve been out stocking up on Vitamin D rather than progressing any kits but will come back to do the legs next rainy day

Have to agree with @Scimitar here. This should be an enjoyable escape rather than a stick to beat yourself with. Most people are far harder on themselves than anyone else would be - I’d bet those 13 binned models you’d have eyed more kindly if someone else showed them to you as their work

Thanks @thepureness kit is in the shopping basket. I realise trading on GB threads is verboten so...

Just saw it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Brain off, shovel chocolate coated peanuts in face - what more does anyone want?

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All 1/72 First (of my slow return to modelling) - an ebay sourced Airfix Hawker Sea Hawk as I’d always had a soft spot for it but hadn’t made one in my youth. Made in 2002 when I wanted something cheap to occupy some time while I kicked my heels between finishing academia and a start date for a job p.s. the silver thing you can just see in the canopy isn’t any fancy internal detail but a screw I’d blu tacked into the nose as weight that has become dislodged with time/shoogling Model making went largely fallow for a few more years till I was looking for something to do while recuperating from an op in 2014 and needing something absorbing/meditative to do and now here we are Favourite it fought every step of the way but despite the flaws and bits that could have been done better I’m still chuffed by the homemade masked splinter scheme on my Matchbox Viggen Finest I’ll always find flaw in the things I make but I think more went right than wrong with this Sea King & Severn lifeboat combo (counting this as one build as it is a diorama)

Looks pretty darn neat to me

Great idea 1976 should give me a few options but the glaring ones are Concorde entering service and the Viking Mars missions

That is a beast and a half

Very nice work

As @Parabat has already said - anyone can post work in progress or finished models. I’m not anywhere like the same level of many modellers on the site but always found people interested to watch and offer help/advice. More than once I’ve been rescued by spare parts or decals offered by another user who has looked in on a build.

Thanks for the bonus history @TheRealMrEd. Fascinating stuff

Welcome! Good username - how does one become a duck wizard? (I’m very glad I spotted the typo that almost went into this reply. Who decided i/u should be right next to each other on a keyboard anyway?)

Welcome! Stop worrying about potential forum sins and figure out how to do pictures so we can see the boat and your bike model

Welcome! Can only give a +1 to the advice already given above