Back again with some more updates. I’ve been working on making gear doors all week, laying up fiberglass and fretting over some details. Not a lot to show for the week but I’ve had other things to do. I laid down some monokote on the wing in the gear well area and then put down four layers of 5oz cloth with epoxy resin to form the blank for the doors. I made a paper template of the wood gear door parts that come with the kit and then traced them on top of the fiberglass. I first heard of this process from the book RC finishing and detailing available from Model Airplane News, but it’s a pretty common technique describe here in the various threads. After laying them out I removed the fiberglass as one big piece by slowly prying it loose using a thin bladed plastic artist spatula. I will rough cut them out and then finish sanding them to the line, lay them on the wings again and cut out the balsa. I haven’t worked out how I will attach them yet or operate the inner doors. In the mean time I had to do something else because I needed to see some real progress so I spent a day working on my P-40 arf from Topflite. They really do a nice job for an arf.