Managed to live through using the resin kit door guns. The glaring scale of the cockpit windows became obvious too late and would never have mattered had I left them closed. Opening a plastic blister pack of AA batteries gave me what I think is the perfect solution for the next build that has windows that can be lowered. Heck even the scale thickness of that stuff has got to be close.
One more error was I realized that since I didn’t position the main rotor more parallel to the thing any shelf I made would have the thing way too far off the wall so I’ll hang this guy. Felt too tight to risk rotating it.