Can you believe it!!! Now it really is starting to look like I've got an airplane in my garage! :-) As the manual instructs, the fuselage is put together with the stringers and frames simply by clecoes until the skin and attached as they share the same rivet holes. It will be interesting to see how the skins and applied while the whole thing is held together with clecoes.
I've also prepped a few parts with sealer paint as several plates, hinges, etc must be attached to the tail post before the skin can be installed. In fact, any interior parts or structure must be built now while I still have access to the interal depths of the fuselage. My wife came out and looked, she was shocked at the rapid visual progress I have made. However, I can already see pages of small angles, plates, and parts that have to be installed before the fuselage can be covered and the cockpit build out can begin. I can't wait to sit in the thing and make airplane noises !!!
