Today I finally got around to sanding the white epoxy primer on the canard, the elevators and the ailerons.

I then spent a good hour fine-tuning the nose/sidewall pockets to accept the ever so slightly thicker canard —due to the added primer (I guess).  This effort included getting it so that both top (mod) and bottom (per plans) canard bolts were mounted… all together.

I then mounted the aft nose/avionics cover, traced the cover’s canard openings with a pencil on the canard, and then covered those lines with blue painters tape.  I then closed the cover again, repeated the marking process on the blue tape, only this time with a Sharpie.  I then added clear packing tape over the blue tape and then wetted out some strips of peel ply on the nose cover-to-canard seam lines.

I then whipped up some flocro and slathered up the edges of the canard “openings” on the aft nose/avionics cover.

I then closed the cover, and cleaned up the flocro that filled the seam betwixt nose cover and canard top.  I left this to cure overnight.

And of course I checked again to see how my canard top profile is doing, in a few spots along each side… still looking great!

Here we have the canard completely mounted with the aft nose cover completely installed as I knock out the final fit and finish… a shot of each side of the canard.

And a lone shot of the right side of the canard and nose cover (pre-seam fill)….

As well as from the left side.

It was getting late but I installed the upper cowling to add it to the assessment of the aft canopy skirt to Turtledeck seam alignment (since I just did the final tweaking of canopy frame to left longeron).  The top cowling will be in primer soon, so I wanted to do this assessment in case any aggressive sanding needed to be done and not mess up any primer on the cowling.

Still MUCH to do with finishing and priming, but I suspect I’ll actually start shooting PAINT here soon.  Pressing forward!