first attempt at the stern windows scrapped, on the second, cant keep the plastic windows clean from glue, oh well not to worry

You sir, you are an ARTIST!
So nice work...

Bameraam he is an artist actually.

copied this from a book cover some 40 years ago

Long gone I'm afraid Alan, I give most of them away, not to worry,

Anyhow on with these windows, finished the top row and then sanded (pic 1), next blew out all the sawdust to see what I was left with (pic 2), unfortunately they were a bit of a gluey mess, think I'm going to have to leave them a while and give it a bit of thinking, some of the cross pieces have come loose (arrowed) and will need refixing (pic 3)
Although this version of the Old Vic is bigger than the De ag one the cross pieces are still hardly 2 mm long

Tried your suggestion Nigel, think it will work ok, tested it out on one window (pic 1), its the one in the middle, and then a close up of it (pic 2), and although no perfect its ok to the naked eye. The main problem is I used some very thin double sided tape, I stuck it to the strips before I cut them into narrow pieces, then fit the bits before taking off the backing strip then when happy with fit I took off the backing strip a tiny blob of pva on each end and bobs your uncle, sounds good doesn`t it, but its the double sided tape thats messy and hard to remove.
On the second set of windows I'm going to only use pva, can always get that off with a cocktail stick and water, problem is it doesn`t stick wood to plastic, anyhow cheers again Nigel

Willz,Nice work

Good job there Willz. Looking very presentable. Well done. Your time and effort is paying off.

W.I.P The Barge. Ok just a few pics of progress on the barge, the method used in this construction is the same as I used with the launch, not much here to show but here it is, I double plank the boats and as you can see in pic 3 I use filler on the first planking to make it nice and even, this makes the second planking so much easier

Ok , the chopper or guillotine, I managed to get one of these on ebay some time ago (pic 1), I was searching for a single edge blade cutter but couldn`t find one so I bought this and improvised, when using normal guillotines with a double edged blade i.e. sharpened on both sides its impossible to get a square cut, and also when trying to trim a tiny slice off a piece it will push the piece back slightly, so the solution is to make a single edged cutter, the US chopper uses a safety razor as a blade, these are much thinner than most but still have the double edge, so I ground the edge off and and sharpened it with just one edge (pic 2), with this cutter I can trim the smallest of pieces, in pic 3 I have a piece less than 2mm in length, I have some excellent jewelers tweezers I purchased on ebay that hold tiny bits great, to trim a tiny slice off I just hold it up to the closed blade pic 4 lift up the cutters arm and with the smallest of play in the arm I can move the cutter over very slightly and slice off, the last pic although not in focus shows about .2mm cut off the piece