Had a few hours to kill today, so here is my progress thus far with the right wing panel. Bottom two wing sheetings, all spars, all ribs, shear webs, T.E and L.E all glued in. L.E taped and clamped for the night to dry. I will have both wing panels done by tomorrow and ready for joining together. But I am going to wait until Ken catches up on his build thread to see how he handles joining the two.

Instructions say to align the dihedral brace (ply joiner) into the left wing panel and then wick thin CA into all the joints. Problem with that is that is all the plans are telling you to use, and I never just use thin CA in any high stress points like wing joiners, firewall, landing gear blocks or any other high-stress areas. I only use 30-minute epoxy for these areas - always have, always will.

Ken has requested that I wait for him to catch up before I go ahead and join the two panels, and I am going to honor that request. Let's watch him do it first - he might figure out another way to do the job .

Sanded most of the spackling away from the left wing panel and I am going to wait until I pick up some Balsarite to do fill-ins. I now have a reason to hate Spackling. It may sand easy and for the most part pretty smooth. But it is very messy and dusty sanding it, and it does not blend in as well as Balsarite (as long as you use the balsa-colored variety).

Live-and-learn. Night for now.
~ Steve ~