Mosquito progress

ok so i laminatd a bunch of 9.5mm balsa strips together to create a balsa block for the nose. gonna sand it to the required rounded shape. created the wings. sanded them down last night. had to wear a respirator there was so much dust. the wifes car looks like it was sprayed a different colour in front from all the dust.
i got the motors and esc's from HobbyKing. Im considering using 8x6 and not 9x6 props for it. i think 9x6 would quite frankly rip the wings off. too much power.
cooling is a potential issue as there are no inlets for the eletric motors. sooo i was thinking of drilling holes in the firewalls just behind the spinner and then making exit holes in the form of exhaust stacks. going to use some round tubing to do that. spray it a nice greyish colour(to replicate a leaded fuel burn exhaust colour)

so i want to spray the model. but now i dont want to spend 100 hours sanding the surface to a glass smooth finish using sanding sealer etc. this is also very susceptible to hangar rash. so i thought about an alternative solution. you get very thin tissue paper sheets from cardies etc. you lay this over the bare wood. then paint sanding sealer/dope onto it. this will then stick the tissue paper to the wood and seal the wood at the same time. and an additional bonus is that the tissue paper makes it ding resistant. kinda like fibreglassing just much lighter. not as strong obviously
havnt tried it yet. will this weekend sometime.

also been thinking bout adding panel lines and scuff marks to weather the aircraft. a pristine looking fighter just doesnt look quite right.

ive been thinking about hatch doors for the wheels. i got 4 different kinds of hatch hinges from HobbyKing. now i just have to figure out how to make them open and close short of using ANOTHER servo. perhaps some sort of spring loaded system that as soon as the wheel goes into the nacelle it pushes on a lever which closes the doors. when it comes out the spring pushes on the lever and opens the door.