Here's a few shots of the cockpit combing and rim comming together. It's ash
BTW.

I Tack-welded the first couple few pieces with holt melt glue and then found
that they would stay put with just rubbing the yellow glue.

If I ever do this again I'll orient the pieces perpendiular to the adjacent
opening edge, rather than vertically. It would take a little tapering, but I
think it would look a bit better and would leave me stair-step top surface
to rasp away.

Thanks for looking,

Steve