LOTS more success with Fred Zenrat's idea of using a permanent marker and in conjunction with both sorts of Tamiya tape.

I did each edge of the windscreen in separate sessions, giving the marker ink time to dry off between sessions. The bendy tape worked a treat so long as I burnished it down REALLY well with a pointed wooden dowel.

Sadly my original attempt on the rear window would seem to be irrecoverable, and that, as well as few small parts lost to the Carpet Monster, caused me to buy another kit of the same car.....

No, I have NO idea what I'll do with the rest of the 2nd kit, but I doubt it will look much like the first one!

Oh yes, more of the dreaded engine plumbing got done tonight, and it's nearing the end of what's practical. Modern day cars have SO many wires and pipes it's not really practical to model them all, but I've done the larger ones.
So soon it'll be time to squidge the interior into the body shell, which I've done a few times before and it's not easy. It needs 1/24 scale shoe horns to get the ends into position, but you can tell when it's there as there's a loud CLICK and everything lines up.

['Squidge' is a technical car modelling term meaning to squash smaller bits into such a shape that they fit inside the larger part without breaking...............hopefully. Fred Zenrat will know just what I mean.

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