4 hours
Took apart the HS assembly, got HS 710 and HS714 out of the mix. Didn’t have to drill the outboard-most holes of those two, because I foolishly did it earlier, when assembling the skeleton. Yer not supposed ta. But, because my angle measurements were dead-on-balls-accurate (and this is an amazing kit and I am extraordinarily lucky) everything is just fine. So you see here before you, the left side HS, final-drilled and clecoed together.
But of course, yours truly didn’t read the friggin directions again where it says to leave the Emp fairing holes undrilled. I’ll deal with that later.
That brings us to the next phase, which is “Repeat the above steps for the other side HS.” The best part about that is, I got from zilch to this:
to this:
in about two hours. Things go a lot faster when you know what you’re doing, or you’re at least sure you’re not messing it up badly enough to warrant a redo.
So that’s where it stands at the moment, folks. Have to final drill and deburr the right side (or left, that detail on DWG3 confuses me when it points left and says “right”) and then agonize over primer, MEK, scotchbrite pads, and go through the learning curve of my flea-market HVLP sprayer.
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