I'm about a month in and about half way done with a 1:16 scale model of the Wright Flyer, made from basswood and metal (britannia metal that is mostly tin), hundreds of tiny laser cut wood parts mixed with parts I have to make from wood stock.
Haven't made a wood model since I made a few balsa wood airplanes in the 70s. Basswood is more robust than balsa so a bit easier to cut and shape, doesn't crush like balsa does.
This thing has been somewhat of a nightmare to build, smashing the record of all my previous model builds in the expletives uttered category. The tin metal parts are so much harder to work with than plastic, even though the metal is somewhat soft and can be sanded it's much more of a pain to glue the parts together since you've got to use epoxy.
And the rigging, I thought it would be hard but wow, tying tiny knots on tiny hooks using tweezers is not fun.
This morning I finished the wings:


At least I thought they were done, then saw that I hadn't installed the instrument cluster, now they are done hopefully:

The detail is pretty amazing, it's starting to look pretty close to the one on display at the Smithsonian.
Here's a picture of the bottom of the engine just to get a sense of scale and level of detail:
