I have two coats on and one to go. I had to sand off years of who knows what under the covering. The finish is pretty smooth, but it could use one more to cover the rest of the grain. After that it will be primer and paint. I work down to about 400 grit sandpaper and the result is glass. The picture is before sanding.

I guess I should explain why the cockpit was done before the finish. My first model was a Carl Goldberg Electra kit, and I did a ton of work detailing the cockpit. Due to my ignorance I used CA glue to put the canopy down. [:@] Instead of dealing with the fog I just painted the canopy a solid color. I now make an interior before painting the canopy for good luck! [sm=spinnyeyes.gif] It was futile to make it look nice anyway because after I covered it resembled a large prune! Plus I crashed it about a dozen times because I taught myself how to fly. Oh well, I got really good at repair very quickly. Enough of my rambling, bring on the picture!