2 hrs. on Friday re-applying skins to the rear fuselage.

The skin doesn't bend easily around the bottom.  The only way is to start at one end and put the cleco's in and it slowly bends into position.

Making progress.

I don't want the skin to have facets so these flanges should be rounded.  Here's before.

And using some needle-nose pliers, here's after.  Much better!

On its side to more easily put in cleco's.

Holes don't line up.  See the video below.

You can see how far they are from this angle.

Video showing the holes being off.

I'm thinking the solution is to drill out the holes to larger rivets and be done with it.

Just a pic showing the big view of how it looks right now.  More work today and will post an update later.

NEXT TASKS:

1. Start putting on the 3 rear fuselage skins as per the instructions.
2. Rivet the one on the left wing's step rib that needs special handling.?? (to be done in "spare" time).