What happened is I took the advice of the experts. I looked for a kit with good instruction. All the hard stuff is stuff I have done on repairs. The stuff I need to know is on the kit instructions.

I'm also a 46 year old engineer the likes to build stuff. When I started this, I should have posted the repair I did on my Cap last year. My engine stalled over trees and landed in the top of one. We carefully pulled the plane out. The lead edge was broken near the fuselage. I took all of the monokote off, took the sheeting off of that side, repaired the structure, re-sheeted and re-monokoted.

That at was the beginning. Before I monokoted, I extended the wing 1.5" on each end to form nice rounded corners. Then I made molds of the corners and formed lexan lenses and mounted LED navigation lights. I need to finish that project out by putting the controller in for the lights.

But I still haven't done a full build.