Many thanks gents, as always your kind words are always appreciated.
Well, that's it - finished!!!
I had some drama finishing up, which was caused by a combination of my fat finger fudging and the overly thick sprue gates. The sharp eyed amongst you may have noticed that my model is not wearing the kit wing guns. Oh dear, one went into hyperspace when I attempted to cut it from the sprue and therefore I was forced to fashion a couple of replacements from scrap sprue. Not a happy bunny as the kit guns are much nicer. Second part into hyperspace was one of the aileron balances. I nicked a couple of replacements from an old scrapped Heller Bf109k-4. Again not a happy bunny as the Airfix parts are far superior. Finally I managed to snap the antenna and had to scratch one out of scrap strut material. Once again, the kit part was far nicer. Ho hum, but there's no point crying about it, once the parts have pinged off they're usually gone for good. You will also notice that I ended up going for the canopy open option as I couldn't get the fit of the closed canopy to my liking. The antenna wire is stretched sprue that I got as tight as I could with a heated pin before my nerve went. I don't like waving hot metal about near a finished model!
Apart from the above mini disasters I found this to be an enjoyable build and, overall, a nice little kit that is excellent value for money.
An excellent GB, building in great company and many thanks to Andrew for running the show.
So there you have it, I
can finish a GB on time
Doing - Tamiya 1/35th Universal Carrier.
Work is the curse of the modelling classes!
IPMS#12300
So hopefully I won't write it off before the final pics can be taken 
. Propeller blades, rudders, you name it, we knock it off. To finish the evening a mix of Xacto blades and Whisky is in use. No wonder my throat was aching, my prop blades are at different angles than 120 degrees and I can't seem to find any varnish anymore 
