Front swinging window - open

I've started fine-tuning the floor to ceiling swinging windows in the bedroom. The kit pieces were in relatively good condition, and I was able to use them. I had to do a little repair work and filling with spackle as I had done for the bay windows.

I primed and painted the interior Antique White by Folk Art, the color of all the interior trimwork. I primed the outside with black, the underlayer for eventual white crackled paint like the rest of the exterior.

Each swinging window is made from an interior and exterior piece with an acetate window insert between them. I don't plan to use the printed kit acetate but plain clear acetate instead.

The windows have square tabs at the bottom that are to be sanded into a round peg and fitted into the upper and lower supports of the window frame. I used a metal file, and it worked very well.

The main problem with the windows is that they didn't close due to overlap in the middle and there was too much excess wood to use the "sand to fit" method.

I managed to cut enough from the tops and the outer edge where the two windows meet in the middle to get this first one to close. It's still tight, but I fear removing any more wood will just make it look lopsided. Good thing it's an old, battered house, because I don't know how I would get these original parts to turn out well otherwise.