Joe, in my Hansa D.I I`ve just glued the strips of Plastruct (like Evergreen) or covered the parts I wanted to thicken with a number of layers of superglue and it works fine and doesn`t require a lot of time.
Congrats mate on winning it!
Yeah I know what you mean, I`m not spoiled with WNW kits yet, and frankly speaking I find it really rewarding to build these oldie goldies into decent looking models. Even though I find Taube my best model, the most rewarding one is still Smer`s Avro 504.