The plastic stuff with the Cessna is definitely more than a 5 hour job. From what I've heard, the 3 piece ABS cowl will take longer than that! [:@] I'm thinking I might order a fiberglass cowl for it.

I also bought the cockpit kit, and that has at least 40 to 50 pieces in it. The seats (two buckets and the rear bench) have about a half dozen pieces each, the floor and walls are a real Bi*ch to fit, and then there's the carpeting, seat belts to make, the instrument panel.... I'm guessing 40 hours minimum to fully detail the cockpit the way I want it. (Probably twice that. Time seems to get away from me.)

There's plastic fairings for the wing struts, top and bottom; there's plastic fairings for the landing gear struts, plastic tail pieces on the fuse..... Then there's all the "window glass", and I've heard you need to carefully sand a groove in the balsa for the rear window opening (so the "glass" fits right).

I had originally planned to fiberglass and paint the aircraft, but have decided against it (I think ). It's really not scale enough to go through all that extra trouble, but it would give me more experience with glassing and painting.

Whew, just thinking about it makes me want to start MY Skybolt!
Dennis-