Steady work going on over the last couple of days on a myriad of smallish tasks in prep of getting this bird ready for post cure and then paint.

I got the right winglet leading edge added micro/West 410 fill sanded down and then epoxy wiped with 4 coats of West epoxy.  The right winglet LE isn’t as razor straight as the left side, but it’s pretty darn close and I’m not going to spend a ton more of time on it… to get it perfectly straight would require another round of fill and I just don’t think it’s worth it.  I want this plane flying, not passing straight edge inspections on leading edges down to thousands of an inch!

Now, that being said there is a level of straightness that I do want, and the leading edge of the right wing is currently not cutting the mustard.  So I sanded it down and slathered on West 410/micro to get it significantly straighter than it is now.  I’ll sand it down tomorrow and epoxy wipe it as I did the right winglet (and left wing too).

I initially sanded the epoxy wiped outboard left wing and outboard left winglet, knocking down the epoxy with 80 grit on the orbital sander.  I then spent a good bit of time working the lower front corner interface and surface level betwixt winglet and rudder.

I think with some minor sanding of some added West 410/micro fill (scraps from right wing LE) on the very front lower corner of the rudder it should have a nice transition from the winglet corner level.  Once I get the lower corner dialed in, I’ll then wet sand across the rudder-winglet interface seams —both inboard & outboard sides— to ensure those are nice and level with each other.

I did a bunch of other odd tasks as well, along with a good bit of assessing on the inboard hinge on the left aileron… that looks to need some tweaking and I’ll report on that as soon as I get a final assessment of what is required.

Regardless, my goal is to wrap up all the wing/aileron, winglet/rudder, and strake micro-finishing prep for primer and paint and move on to top cowl, turtledeck, longerons, and nose micro-finishing.

Pressing forward!