Thanks for the nice comments guys. As I said, this was a very enjoyable build.

Actually the wing fillets didn't turn out as great as you think! After doing the fillets, I remounted the wing to find that the outer points of the fillet base had pulled up from the wings. Aaargh! (Hey, it IS talk like a pirate day!) But like everything else on this plane, the fix was easy and apparent. Whip up some more microballoons and epoxy, mount the wing to the fuse with some release plastic double stick taped to the wing and slop the stuff in the crack. What would we do without microballoons? After slopping that junk in the fit was perfect. And the MonoKote hides all the work!

There are a couple of threads on this fourm that discuss the DB canopy. I boomarked them when I ordered the kit but I deleted them a couple of days ago so I can't reference them at the moment. I used the canopy that comes with the Bluejay kit. Seems like someone said that Wing Mfg. has one that closely matches the original. Someone else said that the original is still available but I don't remember where. Just like the motor, the fixed gear and the MonoKote, I had this part so I used it.

Speaking of MonoKote, the cream MonoKote was the left overs from a BUSA EAA Biplane that I built 17 years ago. I was surprised to see how much MonoKote has changed. The old stuff was much "harder" and doesn't stretch as much when being applied. It even sounds different. But when heated, it shrinks more and faster than the new stuff. It went on fine and I had no problems. I really think I like the old stuff better than the new. The challenge on MonoKoteing the fuse was the wing fillets. What I did was to put a couple of coats of Balsarite on the fillets, sand and then apply a piece of covering just on the fillet. Worked great. Then I overlapped the covering on the fuse side.

I'm a member of the JSCRCC http://www.jscrcc.com/index.htm, we fly at the NASA Johnson Space Center. Very cool flying where you work. Stop in for a couple of sunset flights on the way home!

Dave