While I understand what you mean about empty cabins, I usually don't bother with a pilot. I just haven't found a realistic enough bust. The trouble is in finding one that is the right scale,and finding one in a position that doesn't look like some phoney pose. Looking at the plane on the mosquitobiteplanes website, it does look pretty realistic when photos are taken from the right angle.

It's been a long time since I've tried to make a good scale reproduction of something, complete with all the right detailing. Detailing such as oil streaks, dents, rivets, mouldings, etc. I'll have to do that again one day. I don't have any pictures of anything that I've detailed, so it'd be nice to do one again and detail it right. Maybe if I do the taildragger tripe, I could contact that guy TriPacerDave from another thread. He was eager to send specs, measurements, pics, whatever. Or maybe there's someone else out there willing to share, that wouldn't mind a model looking a whole lot like theirs...

For this tripe though, it's just for fun. Build it, decorate it nice a splashy, try not to crash it. Don't put in too much time in case I do... They all hit something the wrong way eventualy...