Happy December and as the gang says over at the mall, "Only 24 more shoplifting days until Christmas"!

Todays progress has the basic fuselage box built. You start by building two of the stick built fuselage sides and when they're done, pin them together at the wing saddles to make sure they're identical and if they're not, "Make It So"! I left them pinned together while I prepared formers F2 and F3. The top fuselage crutch is pinned down to the table and F2 and F3 are glued to it making sure they are square with the crutch. Now is when the stick built fuselage sides are glued onto the plywood fuselage sides but it seems they're glued together. Thankfully they came apart with a little help from my Xacto knife. I told you I was going to mess up, didn't I? Ok, fuselage sides are complete and they're identical so they now get glued to the fuselage top crutch and you end up with something like the photo above. The basic box is now complete. Now is the time to make sure your basic fuselage is straight, square, plumb, and level because if it's not, your problems will quickly compound themselves.

I've inhaled enough glue fumes for today so we'll pick up the build tomorrow and mess up something new. "On the first of December my true love gave to me, nail polish remover to get this glue off my hands". Ba dump, dump, dump.