Nice progress, Jeremy @jmillan!
And nice seatbelts (I love the buckles!).

Great solution for the seatbelts, Jeremy. @jmillan
Will keep that in mind for next time.

Thanks for the comments guys!

I got cockpit finished up. Added the seat and the IP. The seat belts didn’t come out as good as I wanted but not too bad for my first time. The buckles look out of scale.

I noticed the fuselage half’s doesn’t have locating pins so this might be a challenge closing them up and getting everything straight and flush.

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To me the buckles also look great @jmillan
To be honest, the entire cockpit looks superb.

Cockpit looks great, Jeremy (@jmillan). I have done my share of masking tape seatbelts, and yours look fine. A couple of things I do with them is to paint them an off-white, and then I use a black artist's ink pen with a very fine tip to draw in some of the missing hardware. I am currently building a Special Hobby kit that doesn't have locating pins. You can take small strips of plastic and glue them to the edge of one of the mating surfaces to replace the missing pins. Be careful on curved areas of the fuselage so you don't get strips tilted too much to match the other side.

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It’s starting to look like a plane now but I start to loose interest when I get to the point of putty and sanding of seam lines. Its been a lot of work and it’s definitely not perfect.

First time I bored out the gun barrels with my xacto knife. Looks better I think. A few more bits to add then it’ll be ready for black primer to check all the seams.

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Great progress Jeremy @jmillan
It for sure gives a much better look on those guns.
Puttying and grinding is also not my favorite part to do, but it will improve the final result a lot.

Puttying is definitely a time of self-inflicted stress. I don't mind putting the putty on the plane. My problem is when it is time to sand the putty down and I find that my sloppy putty application has doubled the amount of work necessary to clean up the seams. This is especially true when I discover I have gotten putty in places that are nearly impossible to sand. I have a train layout that I can work on when I feel I need to walk away from a plastic model for a while, or while the glue or paint is drying. Hang in there!