While the wings seemed to just take forever, the side skins of the fuse made me question my life choices. This chapter just took forever for me to complete. Between family, work, and the desire to keep my sanity I found that I was just dragging my feet on this chapter for many reasons.
Looking back, most of my delays were trying to find time to get someone to help me rivet in areas where I just couldn’t do it myself. As I have said before, I don’t have many friends that are into aviation and those that are really don’t want to help me rivet unless I desperate. (I think they are scared that if they do it wrong my airplane will fall out of the sky one day! LOL. ) My other default choice is my wife, however she also has her limits on what she is willing and capable of doing.
With the challenges to get helpers scheduled, I ended up jumping around quite a bit. I’ll post updates on those shortly, however the main point of this update is to celebrate that I completed Chapter 29. The takeaway is, keep working at it. While it seems to take forever, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
One thing I’m going to start doing is posting more details about upgrades and mods. I have been spending a lot of time looking ahead in the project and trying to make some decisions. Hopefully I’m not getting too far ahead of myself, but thinking ahead will help prevent some pain later on. As I mentioned in my New Years post, I did order the Finishing kit, as well as a smattering of other items. Hopefully I’ll start getting some of those goodies in the near future.
The timelapse for the end of this chapter isn’t complete as I just didn’t have it in me to video everything. But it does show I was doing most of the work myself. 🙂