Today I fully removed the plastic wrapping from both horizontal skin. Since it was already in the evening, I was too lazy to do the clean/rinse dance. I think I will leave it to tomorrow maybe. I ...

Today I spent some time to rivet the HS spar assembly together, happily marked HS-ASS-001-C-F-0 sheet 5 complete. Corner rivets Several rivets were very close to the edge of the spar, and my Milw...

Today I continued my journey of horizontal stabilizer spar, HS-ASS-001-C-F-0 sheet 4, 5. Clecoing The parts are the longest I have dealt with so far, I cleaned out my work desk to make space and ...

Following the countersink mistake I made a few weeks ago, I ordered and received the replacement angle HS-ANG-001-X-E-2. With rudder finished and VS blocked partially by the defective part, I swit...

I started on vertical stabilizer (VS-ASS-001-C-F-0-A-6 sheet 18, 19) before the new year and continuced this week. First I identified the parts, dimpled, cleaned and primed everything as instructe...

LET THERE BE LIGHT! In the first week of the new year I am jumping between a few different projects, and today I installed the tail light, and the rudder is officially complete. I’ve done solde...

Happy holidays! Last couple of days I built the rudder assembly (RD-ASS-001-C-F-0-A-6 sheet 23, 24, 25, 26). This is by far the biggest part and most complex part I have built in the kit. I spen...

Process In the last few days I finished the rear spar on the horizontal stabilizer (HS-ASS-001-C-F-0 sheet 4). It took a little longer than I thought to clean and debur, mainly because of the siz...

Last few days, I decided to try something on the elevator. I finished EL-ASS-001-C-F-0 sheet 8 and sheet 9 yesterday and today. Balance Counterweight Assembly, and first rivet! This is on shee...

Today I continued on HS-ASS-001-C-F-0 sheet 2, 3 and 4. Modifying dimple dies When making dimples on the parts for sheet 2, many pre-drilled holes are very close to the corner of the metal, and t...