I was thinking about it but oh well.. I went with the design... tThat looks like a nice covering job on the striping . On the strips.. do you cut those yourself or are they precut pieces?

The wings are bascially now joined. The maine dihedral braces are in place and I added some rear balsa block at the trailing edge for the bolts. I used some trailing edge stock I had and laminated a few pieces together to make the "fll" needed. I put a balsa strip lengthwise over the balsa sheeting where it butts together in the center. I will sheet the rear top this weekend.

I started on the fuselage with the formers. Some needed to be doubled up and some needed 1/8x1/2 balsa strips laminated. The ply clamps came with the kit. and I ran out of mine. You can never have to many clamps . There is one former left needing to be done. The balsa laminate looks like it's needed to widen the tabs in the formers to make a tight fit in the slots in the fuselage sides. I'm not sure why they just didn't make the slots smaller. I can't imagine the balsa adding that much strength as the formers will be in contact. glued with all 4 sides of the fuse.

I will be haeding to the Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party (oops - it was renamed !!... I mean the Fl / Ga game) tomorrow and will be back on Sunday when I hope to start putting the fuselage together. Instructions say to rubber band the whole thing together once the formers are ready and get it all alinged per the top and side views. Not sure I like that idea as it seems would be difficult to get a good bond between the former sides and fuselage without things shifting as you open it a bit to get some glue in there. I'm thinking of adding formers to one side first so we'll see.

Goooo Gators !!