Noted the holes quickly fill with oil until there's no more ventilation.  They have to be cleaned with alcohol, hot water, & a brush. 

The access panel started showing deformation near the bottom, where it's cooler.  The nose started showing deformation in the usual places.  These new areas got more epoxy beads.

The hottest part of the nose started warping & delaminating, so it got CA glue.  Lions are satisfied anything besides metal is going to have a limited lifespan.

After much contemplation, decided to try spray painting the heat shield.  Brushed paint is no longer sold in any reasonable quantity & it's super expensive.  The heat shield would be a matter of lots of masking tape & touching up with a sharpie.  It's important to tape over the entire downwind side, to defeat wind.  This level of masking still wasn't enough for the layered structure.  Quite a bit leaked between the layers.

91% alcohol got a small amount of paint off.   Sadly, sharpies dry out on contact with HT PLA.  Letting them rest for 30 minutes between small touchups can make some progress.  The PLA was oily, sooty & badly printed enough that more than a certain quality of painting made no difference.

It's really time for a better painting solution than homeless despot & sharpies.

Initially noted how the black ship highlighted the nose smoke.  Otherwise, all the other stuff in the complete diorama hid the crimes.

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Figured out how to use the launch tower with the booster model to burn incense sticks upside down.  The ashes aren't so easy to clean.