Thanks everyone for your kind comments, gives me confidence and inspires my next project which I think I may try and tackle The Aoshima over size Thunderbird 2.
Been reading some build logs of it that it's detailing is off and other major issues which I want to challenge myself in addressing... there's always the incinerator or a crashed TB2 diorama if I mess it up
Edit: Oh yeah, the carpet monster still hasn't returned my tiny screw plug.