After numerous rounds of fitting, removing the cowl, trimming and sanding I have the initial bottom cowl fitting done. I believe that everything is where I want it to start installing the Skybolt fasteners and prepare for a lot of fiberglass finishing work.
I took some time to experiment with a couple of coats of the Rage Xtreme body filler on my parachute harness fairing. I'm very happy with it so far. Very easy to work with and great results! I plan on using it on all the fiberglass.
Nice to have the garage open to work!
For a diversion from the cowl I spent some time and got the placard / access panel done on the instrument panel:
I needed the placard and this extra access will make it easier to do hook everything up!
I carefully cut the hole with the Dremel after drilling the corners with a step bit:
One advantage of doing the panel with a CAD program is being able to print out a template to keep everything lined up:
