Well I'm down to the last two things I can do without the wood order in my hands. One is to install the nose ring stiffiner and the firewall.

Something interesting about the firewall... It's set back into the nose of the fuse 2" on the left and 2 1/8" on the right. By doing the setback it makes room for a nitro engine, (due to the short nose moment on the Texan) by tilting it to the right automatically gives 3 deg. of right thrust. Cool! I don't want to guess on the down-thrust, so I'll shim the engine mount once everything else is done.