Templates for the empennage sheeting. I've got a set of plans on the table, a rolled set for reference and because I like a clean set for future use(?) and so I traced out the template on paper. Not sure if I am just cheap or plain stupid. Anyway, it works.

Pinned and weighted. The fin calls for a 3/16" x 3/4" block for the upper tip. Darned if I could find any likely source in the kit box. I laid three 3/16" x 1/4" strips together. Adapt, adopt, improvise, overcome.

Back to the tail incedence. One Phaeton I remember seeing at a Fun Fly was a "dog". It appeared horribly underpowered even though it had a 120 size four-stroke on it. Watching that plane was one of the reasons I decided a little gas engine would be the way to go. I wonder now if the owner had put some negative tail incedence in by mistake. It moved well enough that it should have looked OK, but the tail was low in flight so it appeared to be struggling. I'm throwing in a hair of positive incedence in the tail relative to the lower wing, maybe 1º, and I hope I don't start "chasing my tail" (n'yuk, n'yuk) with conflicting incedences.

At this point:

Upper -1-1/2º
Lower 0º
Tail +1º
Engine horizontal 2º right
Engine vertical -2º