I have literally 2 tasks left to complete before flipping the bird back upright.

The first is to clean the blue paint off the drop-down taxi light bracket, then tape up both the bracket and the surrounding nose for a 2-ply BID layup.  Later, I’ll trim & attach the cured layup to the taxi light and work it into the current opening in the nose to better seal the gap around the taxi light when seated in the nose hole.

Secondly, I will tape the edge of the black stripe with fine line tape to allow me to avoid having to climb underneath the plane later on to tape up the current paint before shooting the remaining paint.

In addition, I made a video to provide a wrap-up/overview of all my bottom-side plane shenanigans before I flip the bird back upright: