Finished up the top part of the right wing tonight. Have a few tricks to detail.

For putting on the leading edge sheeting, I first glued the front edge to the inside edge of the shaped leading edge as the manual suggested. Took my time to sand down some of the front of the ribs so I would get a relatively flush fit between the sheeting and the leading edge. Then, I sprayed some water on the outside surface of the sheeting and spread it around. No big trick there. Then, applied CA along the ribs and top spar. Here is the trick I used, shown in the pictures below (after the sheeting was on, I wasn't going to try and take pictures and install sheeting at the same time ). I took a piece of angle aluminum that I had, and held it down with a fair amount of pressure on the sheeting at the leading edge. I then slowly slid it back along the sheeting maintaining pressure and keeping a little bit of pull on the sheeting toward myself. I then held the bar in place above the spar and took my free hand and made sure the sheeting was making contact with all the ribs. It worked quite well actually.

A trick for sanding the TE to match the slant of the ribs, though I'm probably not the first one to do this; use a large, heavy object, or some sort of block to hold the trailing end of the outside ribs in place. This way the whole TE won't go back and forth when you sand it. Also, having a vacuum cleaner handy is nice to get all the balsa dust off the board.

So, I ended the night with all the top sheeting in place. I will pull it off the board tomorrow, trim down the overhang on the root and the tip, and proceed from there.

By the way, lots of people on the forums talk about replacing the stock landing gear for the SSE. I'm assuming this is just for extra clearance, correct? I fly off of a rolled dirt runway, so I don't have to worry about grass. Right now I'm planning on trying an 11x4 prop initially as that is what my trusted friends at my LHS suggested, and I don't think that will have any clearance issues with the stock gear. Also, speaking of nylon bolts, are they used instead of steel bolts so that the gear will snap more easily if it is forced and not rip the mount out of the fuselage? I have thought about replacing the gear if it really is of benefit, but otherwise I just can't see spending another $30 to replace something I already have when I'm already having to get the Pitts muffler since I'm doing a cowl. Anyways.

Cheers!