"You are doing really good to get that far in 3 years!

i like the dark paint, what is the final paint scheme?

From your first post i thought you had just built the panel."


Ha, sometimes is feels like I am at the stage of having just one part done. My work schedule is 4 days on and 4 days off and I try to put in 8 hours every day I am off so I probably have 4,000 hours in, you would think I would have finished. I work in space flight so parallel engineering is a way of life for me, if the glue on a rib is curing I am welding up an elevator.

The major tasks I have remaining is completing the firewall forward (exhaust, prop, and making my hoses) and the canopy. I built in the mounting pads for two different types of canopies. This month the I struts will be done and I can commence covering and painting the wings.

The paint scheme is lifted from a favorite pinball machine in my collection. On the fuselage there will be a blue stripe with a red zigzaging line running down the blue line. On the wings there will be blue rings going outward from the center, all the elements are in this photo of the game



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As for the drag wires, yes they are on the chord line. I had gathered the plans, build book, and as many of the newsletters as I could find and they all cited that location. Then, after everything was done someone uploaded more of the newsletters to the forum here and I saw the debate. Given that Paul has said both are fine, and that both are out there flying for decades, I am not too worried.