Thanks for the encouraging comments. I do use tweezers, but still the big mitts get in the way. Yep Crimea I do cut them off and use the molded parts, mainly because I have the damdest time trying to make nice cuts. I learned to do this when I was in Rodney Williams modeling group in the US. He's the one did the "super detailed" P-51. I have found it easier to do it this way, I dance to a different drummer I guess. Any way, today I have trimmed most of the off the casts, and will start cutting them off the model tomorrow, after golf! AF I think there are notes in the instructions about the flap indicator. I may leave them up coz they are not that detailed inside. I hate electric flaps. I learned to fly in a 150D, mechanical flaps, 40 degrees. I was doing some close in touch and goes in a 152, electric flaps. Short runway, touched down about 25 meters in w/full flaps, thru the flap switch up, carb heat off, full throttle, jumped of the runway. Flap motor failure. 2300 foot runway, throttle off, brakes on...... cheers, Bill