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coat of matt seal, and I could
remove my homemade masks
from the various windows.

STICKY-OUT BITS. AND
SOME DUST.
I had left the four circular roof
windows until the very end, mainly
to avoid having to mask them; I
simply plugged the holes, and it was
just as well that I did, since I found
on removing my masks that a lot of
sanding dust had made its way into
the fuselage and was adorning the
inside of all the cabin windows. I

obviously had not been careful
enough in sealing up the roof
windows while I was working
on the fuselage seams.
Fortunately the holes
in the roof were just large
enough to allow the insertion
of cotton buds to clean off most of
this dust (note, most of it!) Once this
was done, the top windows were
secured in place using PVA glue.
The undercarriage is quite
simple and sufficiently robust as
long as it is pinned into the wing.
It would benefit from some more
details, like oleo scissors and

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