Like the 94th Aero Sqn, it's time to throw my hat in the ring! Initial progress on the Spitfire has been slow, mostly due to the unhelpful directions from Fotokit's PE cockpit set. I'm mostly using this as a way to practice PE rather than to achieve ultrarealism (AMT's base kit certainly isn't winning any awards there...)
For the most part, I've parsed out the major sections and how to add them to the cockpit. I took down molded plastic at the pedals, seatback armor, control panel, and the throttle and landing gear quadrants.
I also cut out the drop-door on the port fuselage to make room for the PE version (somehow made up of 10 pieces
). I'm going to display it open-canopy, and if the PE wasn't used for anything else, this alone was a great addition.
Bragging time: the carpet in my apartment is tan/beige and very thick, yet I found every piece of PE that I dropped!! And I dropped a number of pieces... Get yourself a ridiculously bright flashlight and that can make all the difference when battling the carpet monster!
Finally, here's my progress thus far. Cockpit is essentially done to my liking. I just need to figure out how the PE frames, Sutton harness, and canopy will all fit together and if I need to assemble all that before or after mating the fuselage halves. I also clipped the wingtips, as White 26 was one of the low-altitude Spits.
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If I can menage to find details of his aircraft and move some muscles and be bothered to build a model at all it would be nice to participate. 
Found my Pavla Hawk 81A. Now I gotta clear some future hanger queens off of my bench. 
