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Old 10-21-2011, 01:53 PM
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Formed and permanently installed the burner can Petals on today. One of the edges of the first petal installed must not be glued, as it overlaps the top of the petal next to it. Once completed you get this:



For those concerned the rivet detail was to pronounced, It was that way b/c once they were annealed and formed, you end up with the rivets looking like this:


And of course it mocked up to the fuselage. Now i just need to finish the fuselage sections:



And the Fed-ex man dropped off some supplies, hopefully this is the last order of mold making supplies: