The plans/kit don't provide any method to finish the longeron through the baggage area. Leaving the longeron and rib exposed makes for a very unfinished appearance. Through the cockpit, the is a nice formed piece the covers the longeron and gives the area a nice finished looks. I decided to use the same material in the baggage area.
I bought two extra portion of the canopy deck material and trimmed / fitted it to the longeron between F-605 and F-606. This deck will have to be attached with blind rivets since it has to be installed after the skin is riveted on and there will be no way to get a rivet gun in there.
Like the forward canopy deck, I notched the baggage area deck around the F-605 Gusset. In addition to being riveted to the longeron, I will also rivet deck to the back of F-605.
Here is a before (left) and after (right) of what the baggage area looks like with the new deck fitted
The forward edge will be trimmed to butt up against the forward canopy deck
