Since I am using enamels on my staggerwing, I have a lot of drying time to do other things (it is really drying slow right now) so I have started my Roden DC-7C.
One problem with it I thought I would mention. The fuselage sides are very thin, especially along the mating areas (seams). Already thin, they taper down to almost a knife edge. The edge width is in the neighborhood of about twenty to twenty-five mils, which doesn't make for much of a gluing area. It is almost like doing a vacu-form. So, I have reverted to vacu-form techniques and am gluing styrene strip stock along one fuselage half, sticking out to form a ledge in which to nestle the other half. No locating pins on any seam.
BTW, the staggerwing is also a Roden kit, but the plastic in the two kits is very different. The staggerwing is old style rigid styrene, while the DC-7 is the newer flexible styrene, almost like a vinyl.