dag gummit stevo! I can't hardly stand this thing not being air worthy already! And now.... after I had already thought about increasing rudder throw.... I'm looking at my stock rudder and scratching my head. But as I don't have any balsa laying around to do this and since the itch is about killing me, I guess I'll leave the uber flat spins to my other models and live with what i get. [] I wouldn't want to shake up whatever might be in the bomb bay too badly anyway..... NOT!!!!

At the store today, since Easter is coming, I picked up a couple of bags of plastic Easter eggs... so I'm getting ready! I already have plenty of Peeps. You can take a toothpick and a bit of crepe paper and have a streamer/chute for them pretty easily.

Meanwhile. I did get to work a bit this afternoon. I got my new elevator control rods installed and the new 'ports' made... or the new slotted hole. As there was nothing here to start with, I added a couple of pieces of 1/16" ply. This was a task made more difficult since I did the bowed out midder longeron dealy. So these parts had to have a tapered bit of 1/8" balsa to shim them out at the front.

Got the top mount for my tug servo glued in. Ready to do the bottom mount and servo tray... all just sitting there waiting. I pulled the engine back off again to work on the cowling. I had in a previous session glued the top to the front, careful to not glue it where the bottom slides between. I used 2" blue painters tape to locate that part on the deck and then fit the bottom half into place. I used scotch tape to hold the bottom on... removed it all and then first tack glue it and then taped all the seams outside to try to keep thin CA from running all over the place... and then went over the seams with thin CA. It still escaped, but the worst run is on the bottom and I think I can get that covered with sanding and primer. So, my bleach bottle is in one piece now. Tomorrow I'll start glassing the seams internally... might do just a bit more CA work from the outside if I can keep it neat enough. Next will be cutting out for the carb, mounting screw holes, a few more cooling holes, a bit more sanding at the rear and it will be ready for paint.

Gee... that doesn't sound like much progress. But the tow release really is just second from done. Then the bomb bay servo mount... which is going to be a tough hole to cut at this point but I'm going to do it using my new idea of it going into the top of the bomb bay box. Gee it would have been soooo much easier to have done this outside of the model. This is one of those things that I dread worse than the actual task. I should get right onto that tomorrow first thing.

Oh lets see..... and then, I do believe I'll put a SmartFly in there and a tray to hold three lipos... two flight packs and one ignition pack. Then the interior should be complete and ready to have everything removed for painting.

Darn... somewhere along the line I need to cut out the windshield so I can do those filler blocks on the wings so I can start covering!

And then there's still the struts to finish...

Well, it's supposed to be up on the 60s all weekend, so I guess I'll at least have good epoxy days! I guess I should do the struts before starting any covering. Maybe I have enough tiny nuts and bolts around to do this without any delays waiting for parts.

And then there is going to be the flying that gets in the way! Oh isn't life just rotten. The weatherman finally says no rain, very low to no winds and decent temps all on the same day! If this holds out, I think this will be the very best flying day so far this year!