Looks nice and even though.

Interesting work.

Thanks for your comments chaps, much appreciated. Should see this one finally done over the next few days.

Did you manage to enough ballast in the nose?
Nice work on those wings folds.

I think it has the same inscrutable smile as you Martin. Hohohoho.

This will be interesting......
You don't half like the more challenging types of models. Hats off to you Sir!

Great work 👏 and a thumbs 👍 up from me.

Almost there.
Fenestron finished and painted, cockpit canopy test fitted. Small touch ups of paint carried out.
Still to do, dipping the canopy, attaching it and filling the gaps around it and then paint. Engine exhausts to paint in including vents/intakes Small aerials above fuselage and on tail, nose search light assembly. Navigation lights.
but here it is at the moment.

That level of detail is extraordinary. You must have the patience of a saint to tackle all that etch brass.
Well done.

Quote from: MSea on February 18, 2026, 08:39:55 PMYes you could say Lindsay sailed away with the competition

Hohoho, you wag.

Hi Martin,
Thanks for taking and posting the pictures of the meeting albeit a bit delayed due to the website problem.
A great night, and a very worthy winner of the competition.

Thanks guys.
Well have been applying the remaining decals today and sorting out the Fenestron decals. The old 'Zero' solid colour was cut into small slices and applied over the gaps that were apparent. I used Daco 'strong' setting solution to soften these slices. Eventually the softened really well and conformed nicely.
I only need to do a little touching up now with the tip of a small paintbrush loaded with Yellow. The endplates on the stabilizer don't fit too well either, and I used the same solution on these. There is a little excess film to trim off when they have dried, for which I will use a new scalpel blade. The outer edge will need touching in.
Next visit to the bench will be to address these small touch ups.
Some pictures follow, thanks for looking:- 

Will be nice to see what you do with this Chris, looks good so far. 

A great deal of work to keep you out of trouble!
Will look impressive with HMS Invincible alongside

Decalling under way.........

The fuselage cheatlines that I thought would be a headache fitted like a dream. The same cannot be said of the stylised tail marking. No matter how I tried I could not get it to fit. There being a join between the two decals right up the fenestron tail. Using copious amounts of Microsol, I finally got it somewhere near, but not as I would have liked.

So I have decided to let the solvents do their thing overnight. Looking in the decal spares I managed to find some solid yellow markings from an old Zero sheet which match the yellow decal quite well. So next job will be overlay some of the block strip over the offending gaps, and then finally a spot of paint here and there to tidy up.

You can also see that the side windows have been unmasked. A little paint chipping  of the red occurred, but nothing that cannot be fixed with a fine brush. I might also add some thin black decal strip around the windows and then touch in the corners with black paint.

Some pictures, thanks for looking.