I got a late start today but luckily Guy came over to help me with the copious amounts of sanding I had to do on both wings.

Guy arrived at 5:30 pm and I was about 20 minutes away from finishing up sanding the bottom of the epoxy primered right wing, which I had been working on for over 3 hours.

Thankfully, the top of the left wing went much faster with Guy’s help.  Here it is about an hour after he left, somewhere a little after 8 pm.  It’s still wet from the wet sanding, and you can see the amount of epoxy primer that was removed to really get the surface nice, smooth and level.

And a shot focusing on the reflection of the winglet.

Here is the left wing top, inboard winglet (pic 1) and outboard winglet (pic 2) after it was all dry and put back in the shop for the night.

Here we have the wet sanded right wing bottom side.  The main amount of time I spent before Guy showed up was on the winglet and the junction of that to the main wing.  The actual main wing bottom areas were significantly much easier to sand.  Thankfully the left side winglet will be finished when I shoot and sand the primer on the bottom of the left wing.

I’ll reiterate that the white on the bottom of the wing is the boat primer that I sanded down about as much as I could without breaking into the micro surface.  This and the gray epoxy primer will get a full white seal coat before the final white paint is shot.

As with the left winglet, I worked the right side over with the sanding block to really get the surface smooth and even.  That being said, there are a few minor pinholes, divots and low spots that will need to be filled (on just about every part!).

Here we have the high build 2K primer shot rudders and elevator tops sanded and ready for white epoxy primer… which is the final primer coat (think seal coat) before the final color coat is shot.  Again, as with the wings, still dealing with an occasional minor pinhole and/or divot to eliminate before the next round of primer/paint can proceed.

It was another late night… clearly a ton more to do tomorrow, the next day, etc. to get this bird in the air!