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This started off as a side project while I was working on the B-25C, but now I don't have that much to do on the B-25 this will be the main project (until I start summat else). This was one of the less favoured kits I came to buy; even the Special Hobby kits have better fitting parts. I liked the picture on the box, the shape was appealing to me and I felt it would look nice in my collection as one of my more unusual models. I do hope mine was a 'one-off' as its not the kind of model I'm used to. I bought this for my liking of seaplanes and it has been in the stash waiting to be built now for a year and a arf, while I plucked up the courage to tackle it. What makes the interior awkward is having no visible ref' points inside it for locating the 'furniture' and that some of the 'furniture' is a collection of resin parts and polystyrene parts; it doesn't normally make too much difference to me but with a model that I had to make a few calculations for and fit little blocks of plastic inside to sit the interior parts onto, they're not quite exact and I ended up putting it aside until such time as I was confident to tackle it. I've ended up having to carefully grind bits of the blocks away to make stuff sit where it should be, but at least it was a start. The only thing about having half the parts as resin parts is that gluing them in can be an issue because they require supergloop and you dont get alot of wiggle time with that. The Seamew was not a completely successful aircraft, in fact at one point the US Navy put them all aside and reverted to using the aircraft they were supposed to replace, the Seagull. Later it became the case that even the little Kingfisher scout plane was more popular than the seamew (I have a Kingfisher in my stash, just waiting to be started). Some of the problem was the Eagle 12 cylinder inverted engine, it wasn't that powerful and also had issues with reliability. A strange comparison that I ended up putting my Seamew aside as I found it too daunting to build earlier, and that the Navy reverted to using the aircraft the Seamew was to replace! Last time I did anything it was to channel some time into making the interior fit 'somehow' and thats when I fitted the little blocks inside it. I lost heart in it after that but more recently I decided that if I can build the Special Hobby limited runners then I should be able to build this too. I would like it OUT of my stash and IN the cabinet. You can see the little blocks I cemented into the fuselage to aid better placing of the interior, and in these pictures I have now been able to start locating the interior parts, I have done one piece at a time and checked each time to make sure that the fuselage will close around it without difficulty, I have also started painting the interiors, I'll do inside the fuselage halves too, before I close it up. I had already glued up the wing halves last time I worked on it, I have now assembled the wing floats and a few other parts, set the exhaust stubs into the panel with fits under the fuselage, drilled holes where needed such as on the beaching gear and the wings (to locate the floats and the bomb racks, these were not marked anywhere on the model so I have had to carefully mark up and drill on my own). I drilled out to fit a mounting post for the rear machine gun, I'll do the same for the machine gun ring and for the seat in the ring so it sits on the floor instead of hanging on the back shelf! I'm determined to have this looking good, it may take time but I'll get there.😉