When the paint in the cockpit had cured I inspected the finish, and was immediately disappointed.
There were small but visible curtains on the rear cabin wall and seatbacks, and I had lost the wet edge in several places. The shiny gloss sheen highlighted it all beautifully!
The cockpit deck wasn't perfect, but it would be mostly covered by the non-slip finish so that didn't matter.
I thought about it for a while and decided to refinish the seatbacks and cabin wall, as I did with the forward deck well. It's tedious in the extreme but I only want to do this once...
So I left the deck as it was and wet sanded the seatbacks and the cabin wall - again.
This is the port seatback being sanded.
When that was done I taped the cabin roof and seatback tops to achieve an overlap across the edges. Like this.
Lastly I applied a fresh coat of paint as carefully as I could, and left it to cure.
This is the cockpit with tape pulled.
It's not perfect bit it is much better, and it is certainly good enough.
So that's the cockpit finished. Hooray!
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