Andy - these photos are from my Fairey River Cruiser which is a bit like a mini Huntsman! As you can see I had drawings of the windows so made templates out of card. What I sometimes do, where the openings cut out in the ply aren't exactly as per the drawings or you don't have drawings, is to draw around the inside of the openings and then add the width of the frames.

Once the frames are cut out and filed where necessary they are painted and then glued to the clear sheet using Deluxe Materials Canopy Glue or other canopy glue - this doesn't fog the glazing. Trim the excess off with nail scissors and then glue to the boat again using canopy glue. This is fiddly and avoid getting glue on the visual part of the glazing - it does dry clear but you can still see it.

Chris

What with having a few days away it must be 3 weeks or more since I did anything on my builds. I'm keen to carry on painting, now with the white, but before starting that I thought I'd better do some work on the cockpit area, that is the floor, as I'm going to be painting inside the cockpit and don't want to mark the paint.

So first job was to make a card template and then transfer to some thin ply. This is fine as it will be glued to the sub-floor and will be stiffened up anyway by another part of the construction. I mentioned earlier that I could have used the laser etched ply planking I've already got and used on other builds but I wanted to match the deck planking, so had to order some of that.

Then I remembered to drill a small hole thought he sub-base, this is something I did on an earlier build when struggling to get the floor out whilst working on it, as it was a snug fit. As I was sanding the edges of the floor down to get it to fit and found it awkward to get in and out I realised I didn't need to have it go right back to the aft cabin so cut some of it off - see the drawing. Once that was done I glued lengths of the planking to the base, the excess will be sanded off later.