A little progress on a couple of my in progress kits over the weekend. I started to get some paint on the P-47 and continued fairing the canopy in on the PZL. I am making progress with the later and looking at it this morning with some primer on it I may well be very near to completing the faring in, touching all the wood going when I say that

Once the canopy is sorted then I can proceed with the main paintwork as everything else is done, including the filling in of a few pin holes.
However I did make some progress on something perhaps more important. I decided to have a look at my "shelf of doom" and see exactly what was on there. To start with there was a part started Pavla Blackburn Roc. A kit which set out to be obnoxious from the beginning and succeeded. Well as I have the Special Hobby one in the stash, which surely can't be any worse, touch wood, it's been reduced to parts and those that might prove useful in the future have been filed.There were a couple of other Anigrand kits which I'd completely forgotten I'd started. They have been noted, and left on the shelf as I will come back to them at some point.
However the big leap forward was when I had a look at the couple of bi-planes on the shelf which were complete apart from having the top wings attached and rigging applied. So the step forward you ask ? I finally accepted that given my eye conditions I am not going to be able to do this as I just can't see the struts/wing joints properly and on top of that my hand/eye co-ordination and judgement of distance at short range are scuppered. My judgement of distance problem means it takes me 3 or 4 efforts at feeling for surface at that range and when you are dealing with small surfaces and super glue that's a no-no. Now the Moorefield's specialist reckons that my brain will eventually learn to deal with part of the problem and surgery will be able to fix the other part, although that's a couple of years off yet. So they have not been binned, but put away in a clearly marked box just in case it can be sorted. Mind you by the time they can my brain will probably have gone and I'll have forgotten where I put the box

So the big leap forward ? I think I finally accepted my new limitations and that I can't build as well as I used to be able to. Now I've known this for 18 months but I don't think I've truly accepted it no matter how much I've kidded myself. Anyway hopefully I won't get myself worked up when I can't do things in future and accept that I am building to the best of my current abilities. Hopefully this will improve both my completion, and more importantly, enjoyment rates.
The proof of the pudding as they say.........