I have to admit, I have been enjoying this kit. I have been busy with work and chores at home. It seems I own a house with for SoCal standards had a decent sized although in most other states a small lot. Still I have 30+ Palm trees, an apple, pear, pomegranate, cumquat, loquat, lime, tangerine, pineapple quava, apricot, white grapefruit and two orange trees. Needless to say the yard, then the pool and of course my cars take time to keep going.
Still I have found some time to work on the P-61. I have to say that while not perfect this kit is really fun to build. The interior offers a nice build up of detail right out of the box, with an odd mix of details missing, most notably the throttle, mixture and prop controls on the left hand quadrant. I added wire and knobs to add those details. Not perfect but effective.
The instrument panel looks pretty good with the decals installed. A lot more detailed than I could paint. Here is the interior still in pieces with everything painted and clear coated, ready for a wash, to really complete it. It is nice that they gave some of the placards for the cockpit even though one of them just has random letters printed on it. Once installed you can't read it anyways so it still looks right, and official.
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