I started today by riveting on the mid cabin braces. I then back riveted the stiffeners to the baggage floor Next was attaching the...

The next step is to rivet the towers to the floor. After clecoing then to the floor, I lightly clamped the assembly to the table for...

While waiting for the kids to get ready for a hike, I drilled the last of the bolt holes into the weldments I then installed all of the...

I had a few minutes this evening, so I started bolting the weldments into place

I started out today by riveting on some nut plates, and then drilling countersinks around them. I then started setting up the floor...

First thing this morning, I started primer on all of my parts After it cured, I began assembly in the firewall by clecoing it together. I...

Payton had to try it before taking everything back apart. I’m not sure what Peter was inspecting. everything is ready to go, but will...

I had to throw evening together before primer. Peter decided to try it out.

The next parts to prep are for the forward baggage compartment These went together pretty quickly Next steps are to take everything back...

I had a few minutes this evening, so I dug put more parts for the fuselage.

Now that I got my replacement for skin, I was able to finish drilling the floor stiffeners. These got de-burred and dumped as needed....

I worked through the firewall section by finishing deburring the parts I had drilled previously The next step was to bend the firewall. I...

My replacement parts came today, in much better shape than the first delivery I continued putting the gear tower pieces together.

I cleaned up my shop a bit by repurposing some of the crates to make a cart for my drill press and band saw.

I already ran into my first missing piece that was a result of the damaged components. I still worked through deburring parts as I...

I wrapped up de-burring and cleco-ing the firewall parts today.

I still had a few of the bundles to inventory, so I got that completed before starting on assembly efforts. I stored the pieces both on...

My fuselage crate finally made it to my house. Although it was not in one piece. This is what it looked like still on the truck In...

this is the last of the loose pieces I have, other than the lower skins and fiberglass parts. I wrapped this up with parts I ordered from...

I rigged and drilled the flap hinges today. I used the aileron rigging jig to help line the trailing edges up.