It is all about a challenge and learning new skills, or in my case remembering forgotten ones!

Looks okay to me. A learning curve taken and accomplished. Nice work.

You must have built up a good selection of spares with the amount of 1/700 ships you've put out. Great work so far.

A good looking build, well done.

Decals applied. They went on well the only downside being a lack of serial numbers, which would explain why they're shown faintly in the instructions. Once on they were coated in Klear to protect them, along with tape, whilst the vacform canopy was cut to size and fitted. This wasn't easy and meant use of filler, canopy masking was done with Maskol. After any paint touch ups and Satin varnish the masking was removed and tidyed up.
I'm treating this build as a 'learning project' due to not being totally happy with the overall outcome but I've learned a lot about building multi-media kits. If I'd waited I could have bought the new Special Hobby release of the CAC CA-13 which has an injection canopy, full decals and all the other bits missing from my kit. But then it would just be 'shake and make' so nothing gained.

While the sea dries, more work scratch building HMS Broadsword.
Bits and pieces used from anywhere and everywhere.

Looking good indeed Dave.

Very nice indeed.

Looking good Dave.

Nice work Joe.
Great to see your latest build. Look forward to seeing what you build next.