RE: Tissue covering
Beautiful work! I can only dream about a covering job that nice (I like those wheels, too). Looks like you're pretty near completion...
My tissuing could have started off better, but it may look better after I shrink it up a bit and paint it. I used the water/glue mixture and I think I watered down the glue too much - as the tissue shrank, it pulled up around the edges. I tacked them back down with undiluted glue, so the wings are back on track now.
The wheel pants came out fairly nice, although I think they "grew" between the drawing board and the workbench - I'm going to have to put one heck of a skid on the back to get the wheels to touch the ground before the pants...