1 hr. finishing up the prep of a batch of parts.  I'll prime the batch tomorrow and get on with making some real progress..

No pictures from the garage, so I'll give you one more picture from the hiking trip to New Hampshire.

2 hrs. misc. center fuselage.  I decided I need to expand on my task list to a full level of detail for most of the rest of the center fuselage construction.  I'm finding that I'm bogged down by not being certain what is ok to do next.  So, I'll need to go over various other builder logs and fill in the missing details in the current fuselage manual.

Was away for a few days hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  This is a typical view.

Was enlightened that I should elevate the front of the fuselage to get roughly the correct angle to enable the angle pieces that connect to the main spar to line up properly.  That worked well (though I'm not sure what the exact angle is, I assume it'll fix itself when I put the side skins on).

Made a little holder for my various reamers.  I got new reamers for the M3 (#10) and M4 (A) rivnut holes.

1 hr. misc.

I cut some of the edge grommet I have to put in the rudder cable holes but I found that grommet too stiff to put in such a small hole.

But, I had some other grommet (it might have come with the kit) and that went in fine.

Inside view.

Starting to gather and prep the next batch of parts.

1 hr. center fuselage stuff..

These parts don't seem to sit well and the holes in these brackets don't line up well with the channels.  Also I noticed a difference in the number of rivets between different builder's blogs.  There are two rivnuts inserted along the leading edge of the the bracket, but the rest are rivets.  One blog I saw (Peter's) showed several more rivets than there are holes in my bracket.  For some of them I'm not even sure what they would connect since there doesn't seem to be anything behind them.

Put in all the rivnuts in the GMC (using Loctite 277).

1 hr. after a busy few days with family stuff I got some time in the garage today working on the forward center fuselage.

Don't assume these part locations are all correct.  I need to confirm with other builder logs.

Another view (same caveat as above).

The rudder pedals will go here.

Gathering the rudder pedal assemblies.

Another view.

2 hrs. prepping parts, drilling out the incorrectly installed channels and re-installing them.

Doing a few parts inside the garage.

Tried a fine-mist spray bottle I bought for small batches of parts.  The mist wasn't as fine-mist as I would have liked..

Channel fixed.

This measurement should be 63.56, but I measure about 59mm.  I think my luggage cross brace is too shallow.

1 hr. gathering parts for the next few pages of instructions (forward center fuselage).  Also got my preliminary drawings for my paint scheme.

Some parts gathered.  Some of them need prepping.  Still need to fix the two swapped channels... :-/

I like the front of this.

This looks like a chin strap to me.

I prefer red...

Not bad, still kind of like a chin strap.  But, I like the tail...

I asked the designer to combine the front I like and the tail I like and got this back.  Like it.

Darker blue.

Darker red and Black.  Classy.

Darker red and darker blue.  Also classy.  My gut is telling me either this or the one right above.  Your favorites?