Pictures *cough* FINISHED!

Ok so I kinda dropped the ball when it came to posting pictures. Clearly tonight or tomorrow means next month....

Anyway I finished the plane and had some great flights last Sunday. I had a lot of fun putting this together and learned quit a bit that I can use on future builds.

Right inner panel.

Holding the polyhedral joint together while glue dries. This is the left side.

While waiting for glue to dry on wing panels I worked on the fuse. I didn't take any pictures of the fuse during construction.

I glued my finger to the fuse! Err look MAGIC!

 In order to make the wing a little stronger I added a top spar to tie the sheeting in a little better. This design wasn't made to take winch launches so I am worried about the overall strength of the wing.

Holding down the top spar while glue dries.

 I was a little upset with the super sloppy fit of the spars to ribs. This will make the wing much weaker than a nice tight fit and this design isn't super strong to begin with. I had to cut small fillers out of scrap balsa and glue in the gaps. I think I spent as much time on this as I did assembling the structure of the wing.

Gaps around spars :(

Woo Hoo! The wing and fuse are finished! Well not quite I have to test fit everything before covering.

Starting to look like a plane!

Obligatory couch shot.

Time to cover! I decided to go with Cub Yellow as I'm not super proud of the wing and don't want to show the inner off. The fuse is going to be black. I took my time with the covering and still ended up with a very wavy rudder and horizontal stabilizer. I spent around 5 hours on the fuse and 9 hours on the wing. I am pretty happy with how the wing and fuse turned out. I also learned what I did wrong on the rudder so it should turn out better next time.

Starting to cover. I forgot to take a before picture.

Finished. This took around 8-9 hours.

A Monokote monster was murdered here!

Finished! It looks really nice.

Lookin good! I could be a little biased tho.

Overall I learned quite a bit and think my next build should turn out that much better. This plane has completed its purpose and it flies very well. The first flight was dedicated to trim and dive tests to make sure the CG was correct. The second flight was 45 minutes long and my best yet! I had a blast building this and look forward to many hours of relaxing thermalling.