Well it certainly doesn't sound like it's nose heavy. Keep at it, I'm sure you'll get it dialed in eventually.

The Aries is coming along very well. I've got the wings, stab and rudder all sheeted and 95% complete. Just need to bevel and hinge all control surfaces then decide what method I'm going to use to hold the wings in place. Rather than using a bolt in the wing tube I'm considering using a bolt on the wing root that goes into the fuse. Lance is doing this on his new Aries and I really like this approach. Since it has a removable canopy it will make the wings really easy to install.

I got real industrious and made the stab removable. I followed Bob Noll's tapes pretty much to a tee and it came out awesome. The only difference is I used a carbon fiber wing tube and used Titebond Polyurethane Glue rather than epoxy to hold the wing tube in place, this should make it much lighter. This was about one to one and a half full days worth of work but I think it will be well worth it in convenience and flexibility later. Now that I've done one I could do another one much more quickly.

As for the fuse I've gone over all seams to get everything nice and smooth and I'm now ready to prime it. After that it's just a matter of final assembly, painting and covering.

Keith