And here it is, a perfect VF3 fuselage and really nice at 9.8 oz. Almost light enough to make this an electric build, it will be interesting to see how light Mike's electric build is at this point. I do have a heavier firewall and I think Mike is drilling out the landing gear block for lightness. I bet he's around 8 oz +- at this point. You can build and hit this weight no problem, just use the right amount of glues, wiping away all access, no drips or runs. Keeping it clean is the trick here.

The goal is to have the finished and completed fuse with paint to be around 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 lbs. So I seem to be right on track so far.

This is less than 5 hours of work to this point.

Next I will be installing the upper half formers, a few more doublers, the rest of the flooring, the deps system, the rear fuse bracing, the fin floor, the lower canopy deck stringers and sheeting, the firewall bracing former, the front firewall stringers and sheeting, and the turtle deck and belly cores that I just finished.

Stay tuned at this point things start happening fast and the plane really grows big.

Also thanks all for checking out this build thread, it's amazing that I have almost 1000 hits in 48 hours of starting this.