Thanks for the compliments. As for the floats I must disagree with your postion on the NCMP floats. I had never before done anything involving foam core construction so that was new to me. However, I followed the instructions and advice from the manufacturer to the letter- i.e. Use Titebond II glue for the sheeting! I also did the glassing with the Minwax Polycryl method described in the instructions. Again, I'd never attempted glassing a model before doing these floats and I am VERY pleased with the results. The foam cores were shaped from the manufacturer as you see them in the pictures I posted. I did have to sand the balsa bow blocks to a final shape ( they were already roughed out ). The angle strips along the bottom edge are simply Evergreen plastic angle CA'd onto the floats before painting. All in all I give the NCMP floats a 9.5 on a scale of 1 to 10. They look great and perform even better..This is my 2nd kit built plane. The first was a Sig Kadet- 25 years ago.