09/07/01

     I have come to the inescapable conclusion that it will not be possible to precisely mask all the crew quarter windows at this stage in the game.  This was realized, of course, after I painted 73 windows white and colored 130 windows with a mechanical pencil.

     Such is the price of education, I guess.

     Therefore, the next steps are to lay in the fibre for the windows, completing the upper saucer.  What I'll do is allow a tiny hair out of the windows, such that when the whole ship is together and painted, I can paint / graphite the windows, then take an Exacto knife to the fibres sticking out, then perhaps use window glue for the right effect.