After a long week of work I finally got some time to work on the tail. I had been putting it off, partially afraid I didn't know exactly what I was doing. But it is all wood and I have to keep telling myself if I screw things up I can always cut some new pieces and start anew. A difficult mind set to get my head around even after numerous reworks. [&:]

The first picture is the mock up of the rear engine and cowl, I had to use a different motor mount than what I had first bought to go with. Since I am using a larger rear motor without increasing the length of the rear cowl I needed to make sure that the motor would not be sticking out an ungodly distance from the cowl. So I found a motor mount that I could mount inside the fuselage and still leave room for the control linkage between the lower and upper haves of the rudder.

Also in the first picture you can see the tip of the lower tail has not been build up yet. The plans show a small skid build from balsa so if you drag the tail you have a small degree of protection. In the second photo you can see how I built the tail up. I used a bit more wood than the plans called for, it adds more weight but I am willing trade a few onces for a little more survivability.

The third photo shows all the tail control surfaces mocked up along with the rear engine minus the muffler and spinner. I am having issues finding a muffler for the rear that will not destroy the right hand side of my cowl and speaking of problems all my emails to Tru Turn have been returned unable to deliver so I am still on the hunt for a relativity close to scale rear spinner that I can get cut with pusher reliefs.