A Nice Nose Job...

After a few days of making dust from fiber glass, I finally took her new face out of the shop for the first time:

More work is still needed as everything is holding with Clecos. Now on to riveting the hinges to the fiber glass after a heavy countersinking session on the fiberglass, another first for me!
Note to builders:
I found the VANs instructions lacking on the fiber work needed to adjust the cowls. The shapes are complex and when you cut and/or trim to fit the cowls to the fuselage, it would help to have more precise instructions. You have to infer a lot and in hindsight, I would do things better now but ... too late. Some are minor annoyances, for example instructions tell you to mark the holes to be drilled on the hinges which I did. What they don't tell you is that these marks will be used when drilling with the fiberglass on top of them, well to be seen these marks have to be well drawn with contrast and... on the right side of the hinge (in my case they were on the wrong side!).
My overall rating on my cowl job: not bad for a first, will do better next time!

ELT installed and wired...

... but not tested! (who wants to test his ELT anyway?)
Here is my Emergency Locator Transmiter in its new home:

While I was working on the instructions from VANs, I kept thinking of Steve Fossett, go figure!

I also didsome work on my plane's paint scheme, thanks to a nice template provided by Bill Hollifield, a fellow builder. Here is how it looks so far (click on the picture to enlarge):

Restarting after long break!

From the Chesapeake Bay to the Appalachian mountains this break took almost a month. The good thing is that the summer heat is over and the temperature in the workshop more comfortable.
Aiming at painting the plane among other things, I took care of the modification of the flapperon's rivet obstruction mentioned earlier in this blog. Here is the result:
Before modification you can see the rivet on the wing attachment that is slightly ground:

After replacing the LP3-4 with a CS4-4 there should be enough clearance for the Flapperon:

This operation was repeated for the left wing.

I then started working on the ELT installation, just behind the passenger seat.