Nothing major to report tonight but I made a little progress on the wing TE and tips. I tack glued the ailerons in place to sand everything to the same airfoil.

My left wing tip is still slightly warped up but I think I'll be able to fix it when covering by applying the bottom, holding the wing TE flat with the spars on the table and reheating the covering. Frankly, I'm amazed the wings are not more warped after all the temperature and humidity changes they have gone through over the years.

The wing panels are not joined yet they're just taped together to check for symmetry. I actually cut the aileron stock to the sections shown on the plans individually and then glued them on individually (this in part because my plans are not on the table where they should be ). In retrospect, I think I might have marked the three aileron sections with the aid of the plans, applied glue to the center and tip sections of the 36" stock and only tack glue to the aileron area. Then centered the whole thing on the TE, sand and cut out the ailerons. This would leave some nicer narrow splits between moving and static sections. It also ensures that everything follows the same airfoil (assuming your ailerons are straight... mine were not quite).

What's left for the wing panels are the shear webs (this should hopefully help to straighten it out too), the top cap strips, servo cutouts and hinging the ailerons. After a final sand, I should be able to join them and proceed to the fuse mounting and wing center section.

Don,

it's a fun build. The fuse nose is perhaps the most laborious part (lotsa elbow grease[sm=spinnyeyes.gif]) and F2 could use a slight re-design in my opinion. I would also make the turtle deck slightly stronger if I was to re-build it as one often holds the plane here and the sanded 1/16 sheet doesn't offer a lot to hold on to. Maybe a couple more formers here. Wouldn't add much weight to an already very light air frame.

The way I see it, if you can buy a kit these days, you should. There are so few to choose from compared to 10-20 years ago that most kits are worth simply having. If you wait another 10 years, it'll probably be a collectors item if you don't build it! I checked out the new offering on the Tsunami from Juno RC and they supposedly were going to be kitting a 60 size too but it looks like there hasn't been an update on that in a while.