Paper B52 - Part 2 - Nose and Cockpit

The first step was to cut out all the bulkhead templates (printed on normal-weight paper), and glue all those parts to a large piece of cardboard (about the same weight as the cardboard on the back of a writing tablet. Then I cut all those pieces out using heavy scissors and a hobby knife, using whichever worked best for each situation.
I used a Dremel tool mounted in a drill press attachment. I cut out a piece of masonite, drilled a hole in it, and attached it to the drill press table. This allowed me to lower a sanding drum into the hole so I could use it to finely shape the cardboard bulkheads.
The next step was to cut out the strips that make up the skin of the fuselage. In the upper left corner of this picture you can see the strip that makes up the front windows of the cockpit. Each of the strips will be glued between two bulkheads.
This picture shows one of the strips (actually the one right behind the radar doom in the very front of the airplane) attached to two bulkheads. All that's left here is to glue the flap down to both bulkheads.
The piece in the middle of this picture is the one from the previous step. These three sections make up everything in front of the cockpit window.
Here they are pushed together, ready to be glued.
The cockpit area is made up of two sections using the same construction method of bulkheads and skin strips. Here are the nose piece and cockpit piece ready for assembly.
And this completes the nose/cockpit assembly.
This is what this section looks like from the back (the top of the cockpit is toward the camera). That last bulkhead is only half-height because it leaves room for the cockpit floor. I decided to not do the cockpit on this model for a couple of reasons. I've done a cockpit before (a Pitt's Special), so I'm not shying away from the detail work. However, this is a very large model that I'm going to hang from the ceiling, so the cockpit won't be visible for the most part. Also, I have other models I want to get to, so I don't want spend any unnecessary time on this one.