TLDR Clecoed the right half rear top skin Details I’ve been procrastinating this task for a while. On the one hand, I need to close the rear skin as soon as possible and make space for my wo...

TLDR Assembled both landing wheels Detail The wheels came half-assembled but the inner tube is not inside the outer wheel, so the whole assembly needs to be taken apart and reassembled to pu...

TLDR Built the nose gear assembly Details I thought building the nose gear would be a simple task but it turns out to be anything but simple. I spent the last 2 full days battling with Vasco...

TLDR Test fitting firewall Details Components There are 4 layers to be sandwiched together for the firewall, from outermost layer to innermost: The side skin The spacer The firewall...

TLDR Continued to rivet side skin Installed the firewall mounting strips Details Side skin riveting I installed all rivets on the bottom (between side skin and bottom skin), and also rive...

TLDR Riveted most of the side skin Details Today I spent a few hours riveting the side skins. So far I have all except one set of stringers riveted. The set that sits closets to the rear f...

TLDR Cleco-ed side skin to fuselage And riveted some non-essential parts Details So I need to install the side skin (and possibly the firewall) before continue with the joystick, because t...

TLDR (Work in progress) Still tweaking control rods to rotate freely Details For almost this entire week, I am still tweaking the control tubes and shaving off materials here and there. The...

TLDR Built the throttle quadrant Details I’m back from a 3 week business trip and wanted to resume the work from something easy. So I picked throttle quadrant as my next project. I was thin...

TLDR (Work in progress) tweaking control rods to rotate freely Prepared side skin Details Fitting the control rods I started to fit the control rods (joystick assembly, aileron torque tub...