Declaring this one finished. Happy with the end result and learned a lot from the build especially about painting. The most annoying things are that some bits just keep falling off. The wheels are held on with a pin and pushed into place. That needs to be a tight fit to retain them but that means a bit of effort is needed to push them in. The suspension parts don’t seem strong enough to support that and start moving. There is a surprising amount of detail that you end up not seeing but still fun to do.
Recent kits have been by Revell. The King Tiger, Mosquito, and Spitfire were fine. Some awkward bits but went together well. The Mustang seems to have parts that are just too delicate though to scale. The DH Twin Otter kit is another example. The supports for the floats were incapable of supporting the fuselage and I had to resort to copper tubing.