The stitching on the side of my VK Camel presented the problem of available eyelets being too large for 1/6 scale so I put a piece of wood under the area, drilled it and stitched away, minus eyelets. A thin wire (I know, this metal could be causing my radio problems..) gave the appearance of a hem. Now if I can find those photos of this area, they will appear below.
By the way, the vertical stitches looked different so my stitching there was done before covering.