Well, my building has been interrupted a bit yet again, this time by 'FLYING'!!! Yes! Got some good weather and put a few models up yesterday. Today, I did get a little done. I installed my inserts into the wings. These are the brass threaded inserts, wood thread on the outside 8-32 on the inside. This way I can use machine screws for the struts instead of wood screws. I'll do the same under the fuse. I plan to use metal plates on the ends of the struts instead of the plastic stock parts. I do plan to put this plane through the paces, and I expect the struts to be feeling some force. At the fuse end, my LG plate mode is 1/4" baltic ply. Once I start on that part of the struts, I'll decide if maybe blind nuts might be better than the inserts, but whichever one will be anchored in that ply which should be substantial. I'll for sure do fiberglass on the joint where the struts come together. I might even run a small CF pin or two through the joint as well.

I did a few more little things on the wings... then a fair amount of finish sanding. All I lack on them right now is sanding a few small spots of wood filler and then adding the filler pieces that close down the gap at the windshield... and then they're RTC!!!! Yes! I might actually get to see what these colors are going to look like on the plane very soon now!

The fuse has been patiently setting off to the side.... still lacking the same things. I was going to do the nude photos today, but guess what? The camera batteries were dead! Imagine that? Anyway, they are charged now so maybe tomorrow.

I did check the balance on my wings and I'm just a tiny bit heavier on one side, like about the weight of one penny. I'd rather be lucky than good and with all the sanding and carving this is for certain luck. The light side is the side where the throttle servo resides and the side to which the engine base offsets, so I'm leaving it alone in hopes that the model as a whole will be pretty close laterally.