Yet another build of Ken West's X-15

I'm about to start building this beautiful plane. I got it from eCardmodelers along with the inflight conversion kit. I had it printed in a local business and I'm very happy with the quality, and done my shopping (no less that three different glues!). Plus, the football world cup starts tonight, so hopefully building a paper model will help me cope with the dullness of most matches :P.



I'll build the in flight version. Two reasons: maybe it shows better the very special shape of the plane, and I'm thinking how great it'd be to have a few planes/satellites hanging from the ceiling in my son's bedroom (high, very high at the moment). Of course it is a pity not to show the detailed front landing gear, and the windows are a bit too small...



I have a few questions:



- This model is unusual (in my experience) in the lack of tabs. Does this make it very difficult? Do you add separate tabs to reinforce the seams, or is it ok to just glue the borders? I'm thinking about using superglue to strengthen the model, after the PVA has dried.



- In part 2 (cockpit section), part 1h is marked to be glued to cardboard. Isn't this incorrect?



- Would you say this thread could belong as well to the PASA section? :)