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Hi folks, In-between boredom-induced e-bay buying, I have been working on some 1 72 single-engine fighters which I have just (about) finished. Here they are together; a Special Hobby Boomerang, the old Hasegawa P-40N, and the Hobbyboss Spit Mk Vb (trop): Boomerang: This caused me some problems. Cockpit framing was so delicate it distorted and snapped while being snipped from the sprues - it was lovingly patched with stretched sprue and mended with sprue soup; cockpit was ludicrously detailed and somewhat difficult to assemble given you can't see anything through the closed canopy provided in the kit, but the fuselage structure between the rear view side panels was not represented. That's right; see-through. That was solved by adding a couple of sections of Airfix Hampden bomb door. Canopy didn't fit well and there is a non-prototypical change of slope of the rear decking because of this. Apart from that, the kit built up well and the colour scheme (RLM70 Schwartzgrun masquerading as RAAF foliage green) was simplicity itself. I tried to enliven the monotone with oil dotting and a red-brown panel line wash. Don't know if it worked. Hobbyboss Spitfire Vb For some reason, I chose to Dremel out the cockpit and add one from another Spit. A lot of work for limited benefit. Canopy, prop, tropical filter, wheels and u/c doors came from the spares box. I believe the canopy should have external windscreen armour, but as the example modelled was from 1944 and I didn't have one to hand, I choose to believe it was retrofitted with one an hour after it was last photographed. 580 canopy glue took care of the inevitable gaps. Xtracrylix paint applied by brush and Xtradecals finished it off. Hasegawa P-40N. An oldie and a goody is this kit. Basic cockpit tarted up with only some masking tape seat belts, drilled out the top of the featureless main wheel well roofs and added some new ones from thin card, enlivened with strip reinforcements. I filled some sink marks over the flaps and then had to rescribe the entire upper wings. The wing fuse join cuts across the flap sections and getting rid of the join took a lot of filling and sanding. Just about managed it in the end. Still need to add the u/c doors. Paint was again brush-applied xtracrylix with a home mixed brew for the underside sky gray colour. Hope you like 'em. I'm now in the mood for some heavier metal . . . Regards Martin