<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">i'm pre-shaping it a little before glueing it in, but i previously had this bad habit of taking a 'little too much off the top', so i bought one of them little planer/shaper doohickies, and i have no idea at all why i didn't buy one of them when i first started modeling. i guess i used to like sanding, but heck with all the mess and dust. true, the planer does too, but it's a lot easier to track how much you're losing at a quicker rate. </span>