Some people have all the luck. Ironworks, indeed! Looking great, Lou!

I'm afraid my progress is much more modest and paced...but I am really excited to see these things unfold.

Today I fired up the "Iron Works" and got busy...

Here's the cockpit assemblies for both P-40's, just prior to painting.

Followed by the wings after spraying on some "Interior Green"

Finally here's the cockpits after painting...

Just a sneak preview, but here's a picture of the "Iron Works" in action today... There was a lot going on.

Can you name the different planes by looking at the "offices" ?

As usual, comments are encouraged...

Thanks David . The answer to the question is...

Two P-40's shown on the right with the light gray almost white looking plastic sprues.

Two Tamiya F4U-1 birdcage Corsairs at the very top in two halves.

Four Hasegawa F6F Hellcat cockpits as a part of the Year of the Cat GB.

Tonight the Iron Works was pretty busy.

I finished the cockpits for both P-40's

and installed them.

Coming right along.

Comments are encouraged.

Coming along well Louis, you may want to add some additional tabs to help secure the panels holding the exhause stacks. Not much there and alignment can be tricky. Hence I always attache them prior to closing the fuselage halves.

Following Tom's advice I'm getting ready to reinforce the area behind the engine access panels before I glue them on.

After studying the instructions I noticed the exhaust stacks

are glued in place from the inside of the panels. Since this will complicate things with painting the exhaust, I decided that I would spray the base color on the panels first, then paint and install the exhaust afterwards.

So here's how the panels look after a quick coat of desert sand.

Since I had the airbrush loaded I decided that I would also paint the sides of the fuselage behind the rear / side plexiglass. This was normally done in this manner since the side plexiglass panels came off fairly quickly in the field on the real plane.

It's not much progress but I'll take it.

Next step is to ready the long tail fuselage for some resin rhinoplasty ...

The huge chunk of resin gets installed next.

Please stay tuned for more updates ... and as usual comments are encouraged.

Thanks again for looking and have a safe weekend.

Louis, following this with interest, I've got one in the pile. The nose/fuselage/lower wing join will make or break this model. Glad I grabbed mine when I did. You're knocking them out, there at the ironworks.

There is always something special about cutting parts off a kit and replacing them - it takes real skill and a bit of nerve! Looks like you are doing it very nicely Louis - looking forward to the next update!