Painting

Finished polishing the wings and started painting them. Finished with the gray, and continued with orange. Started painting the trim on the fuselage also,

Fuselage and horizontal stab

The horizontal stab is no finished. Polished alu and orange on the upside and gray and orange on the under side. Painted the fuselage on the underside.

Grade C on right fuselage

One pass of grade C

F9 on right fuselage

Pass 1 and 2 on right hand fuselage. Actually 3 at some places. Also finished left with C.

2 passes of F9 on left fuselage

This is what 2 passes of F9 looks like. There will be orange trims and the whole underside of the fuselage will be gray (3 in 1 RAL 7035). I have seen some do the F9 polishing on the plates before assembly. That might be a good idea, particularly on the underside of the wing/fuselage. I'm not totally convinced, because curved surfaces are much easier to polish than straight surfaces.

According to "David A" at sonexbuilders.net, polishing is like: The way I tell when it is sufficiently polished is when the hazy image of Joe cool pilot becomes a sharp clear image of an old fart.

Polishing and paint

The vertical fin painted, and started polishing the fuselage.

Main spar

Had some accident with the engine, so I continue with the aircraft riveting/bolting on the main spar.

Fuselage and firewall

Riveted and bolted together the fuselage. Now I have a whole aircraft fuselage in my shop, not just a bunch of pieces. Drilled the upper firewall to the wind shield holder, which was rather confusing regarding directions.

The last holes

Drilled the last few holes in the aft spar/fuselage connection. Deburring and priming next.

New parts

Got the aluminium piece from ACS and made the new parts with correct holes.