WINDOW REPLACEMENT
So, we're at the point where H.G. is starting something that I dreamed we might do but felt had such inherent risks I wondered if it was really possible.
To begin, the kit windows
never fit correctly. They weren't
designed to fit flush with the skin of the aircraft and as the overall quality of the build started to improve under H.G.'s hands we both felt that "window replacement" was a necessity.
Also, to be candid, the damn things were dirty and just wouldn't clean up.
The question was, how to accomplish window replacement on a completed fuselage, especially in the nose? You will recall that the side windows were glued-in in a way that made it impossible to just pop them out.
The only answer is drilling them out, and that's what you'll see below.
The breadth of the work on this model overwhelms me sometimes, and I'm not even doing it! The project is beginning to remind me of an early short story by Franz Kafka:
"The Great Wall of China." 
It's available online at the link, and if you care to read it you'll get the analogy to this effort! And yeah, Kafka was a bit
strange. He was, after all, the guy who wrote
Metamorphosis, the story about the man who went to bed one night and woke up changed into a giant cockroach. (I'll spare you some book cover art on it. The very idea is creepy enough as it is.)
More to follow, but in the plastic, not literary arts!
! It appears to have the standard K4 mount on four posts albeit different from either the round one on "Miss Ouachita" or the later metal one. And of course totally different fro what we see in the Belle. I refer to this one as the recessed mount. Looks to me like they formed a recess and then cut out the nose for it. I think I have seen a more head on view so I will do some more looking. The best approach may be vacuforming the recess separately and a new nose, then cutting it out. Dunno, but will be worth investigating as I know you want it right 
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