OK... been working on my windshield! Yes, that was quick!

I was able to trim to within 1/8" up the sides with scissors. I used my Dremel with drum sander to cut in along the top corners. This would have been way too much stress to cut around using scissors. At the bottom, my material was much thicker and very hard to cut. I started about 1" away and then worked closer a little at a time. I was still afraid to go closer than about 1/2" in that area.

I noticed that at the top, it was a very snug fit around the fuse. I didn't like that at all. So, I did a lot of sanding, rounding off those curved fuse edges just under the top corners of the windshield. Basically, it's a 1/8" round over now and it fits much better and I think little enough stress to not worry about the windshield cracking.

I am planning to run a piece of 1/8" balsa crossways at the top against the front of the bulkhead. This will cover those steps left from the wing mounting parts. I'm going to double check my wing mounting dowels and likely cover those holes as well. This will provide another 1/8" of thickness at the top for the windshield to adhere to. At the moment, there is only 1/8" which is a bit narrow in my opinion.

Meanwhile, my rechargeable Dremel has run down from all the activity today, but it is so much more controllable than my other one, that I'm just waiting until it charges. All this cowling work and now windshield work has added up to a lot of Dremel work. I guess it's time to hop onto cutting the bomb bay servo mount... which I seem to keep putting off! Once that's in, and the quick gluing of the tug release mount, I'll be able to take a good set of photos actually showing all of these areas I've been talking about. I hope you folks don't mind nude photos! [:-]