Been awhile, but there's been progress.

First, got the top wings finished up. I made hinges (as per the plans) and fit the ailerons for final shaping and sanding to match the wings. The plans call for three hinge-pins, I'm using a single long piece of music wire for test fitting:




...with everything finished up and sanded I covered the ailerons with Antique Solartex, fitting the fabric around the hinges.




...with the ailerons finished up I coated the lower portions of the wing ribs, center sheeting, and wing-tip with balsarite then covered the lower half of the wing. I'd been dreading covering the undercambered wing, but it was no big deal. I tackled it by tacking the fabric lengthwise, then pulled it tight to the corners. To keep things tight, yet tacked properly to the ribs I slowly tacked the fabric entirely to a middle rib, keeping it stretched chord-wise. Then I pulled the fabric snug to the next rib, tacked it completely chord-wise, tacked it to the trailing and leading edges, then moved to the next rib, and so on. In effect I was covering the wing rib-bay to rib-bay from the middle to the center of the wing, then from the middle to the tip.

After the lower fabric was attached I added pushrod-exit fabric reinforcements for the ailerons to the inside of the fabric, then covered the top of the wing. I used more "conventional" techniques to cover the top, keeping everything snug and wrinkle-free as I went. The end result looks great, and the ailerons/hinges all worked out great:








The next step was to cover the fuselage with some left-over scraps. I tacked the fabric directly to the frame, pulling along the edges.




FInally, for fun I stuck an old pilot (well, passenger) in the front-seat for a test fit. Seems to work!




Next step... make the inboard cable access covers, finish the set of lower wings, build the landing gear/tail-skid, rig the structural and control cables, and finish it up.