Very nice job John! Quite a beauty.
A real beauty, John! The spinning prop in the next to last photo? Fan, or motorized?
Gary
It’s been a pleasure and an education watching this come together, John. A triumph! You set a high bar, especially with the markings.
Thanks, everyone for the kind comments.
The spinner’s motive power is a small stream of air from an air nozzle. I have a thing about spinning propellers and it has always been that way, I guess. When I was a flea I built the Revell Radar Constellation and was very pleased that all four propellers would spin freely. My next door neighbor who was older and could drive took me for a ride and I held the Constellation out the window and watched as all four props spun in the air…but the joy turned to horror as they all quickly seized up one after the other. A lesson in friction heating and the low melting point of styrene!
I almost always use copper tubing and music wire for my prop installations, so they can be easily removable, and spin freely. Keeps me from breaking prop blades. The downside is if you are carrying the model you have to remember the prop can fall off. Somewhere in my back yard between my back door and the building where I build plastic models is a prop from a Tamiya 1/72 P-51D. You would think with a bright yellow spinner it would be easily visible, but not so. Luckily Tamiya was kind enough to supply a second propeller and spinner.
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Beautiful John! 
Thanks, Dave, much appreciated.