Just finished my build of this 1/144 Minicraft kit of the Douglas DC-6 in Pan Am livery. The one "new" thing for me this time round is that I used decals which I printed out on my own colour laserjet printer, basing them on a high-res scan of the very crumbly and dodgy looking decals which came with this quite old kit.
I just used clear decal paper (bought on eBay) and they were extremely easy to apply. My tastes in model kits is so old-fashioned and out of date that almost all the kits I buy are ancient, and most have bad decals. I don't know why I didn't get onto printing out my own decal sets much earlier on in the piece.
The only other notable thing about this build is that I now have a good little collection of fishing sinkers, for weighing down the nose on this Minicraft kit. For the last Minicraft kit I built (Boeing Stratocruiser) I added well over the suggested half-ounce that Minicraft says you should add, and the Stratocruiser just barely manages to sit normally, and will often "pop a wheelie" if bumped in any way. For this DC-6, I used three 11g sinkers, which is over an ounce. So far, the spindly nose wheel seems to be taking the extra weight.
The rest of the kit was a fairly typical Minicraft offering where most of it, but not all of it, goes together OK.
I now have a set of Pan Am decals from the same era suited to a 1/144 Minicraft DC-3, so I look forward to having my own little Pan Am fleet some time this year.