My ongoing radio controlled 1/10th scale Spitfire project has been hanging around the workshop for ages and ages - I keep losing interest and then getting bursts of interest and it gets moved around so much it gets damaged and repaired more than it gets built
I also had a disaster in that I fitted the motor (which will be electric) and couldn't resist the chance to start her up by way of a test.... I held the fuselage on my lap with the motor pointing up the workshop and opened up gradually to full throttle only to hear a splintering noise and the motor - it's associated electrics and mounting bulkhead - shot up the workshop and hit the door
Fortunately the motor is connected by plugs and sockets so it dutifully unplugged itself as it left... 
This then involved a complete rethink and rebuild of the nose - with attendant surgery - all completed now and the last motor run was most successful.
Last job was glass fibre cloth being epoxied on to the balsa to strengthen in relevant places - and I am now waiting for a delivery of lightweight modelling tissue paper which will then be applied with dope all over the stucture to seal the wood before paint is applied.
The actual 'build' is now complete - and all I now have left is the fiddly fettling of the controls - control surfaces - internal electrics - pilot installation - cockpit fixing - painting - markings ... it will be painted as MH434 ... my 'hero' so to speak ... [trivia - did you know that the word MYLCRAINE on the side of MH434 is the christian name of the wife of it's wartime pilot Pilot Officer Henry Patrick (Pat) LARDNER-BURKE]
So this is where we are now ... the darker orange is the glass fibre reinforcing - the white is all the lightweight filler where it's been repaired over the months
