Trimmed right elevator counterweight to balance. The elevators are balanced separately but the left has the trim servo in it so it's much heavier.
Left elevator tip ready for fiberglass to close off the end:
Fiberglass in place:
Drilling left elevator tip:
Windscreen fairing after a lot of sanding of first layer of filler
Thick layer of west microlight fairing filler:
Fairing has been sanded but not filled. Black area is one layer of embedded carbon fiber.
Reinforcing with a bit more fiberglass cloth:
Sanding progress:
Rough trim complete:
Layup done. Four layers of glass plus one layer of carbon fiber over the roll bar area. The short pieces are peel ply for the initial finish.
Ready to start the long process:
Windscreen almost ready for fiberglass. The white strip over the roll bar the the printed area around the front is double sided tape meant to create space for the sika flex adhesive.
Second coat of epoxy primer on canopy fairing turned out great:
First coat of primer revealed a fair number of pinholes which I filled with metal glaze:
First coat complete:
I thought it was ready but there were still a lot of lurking pinholes:
The cowling is so complicated. Still in process. Filling and sanding.
Baffles are complete:
Britt's belt hole punch worked great to prep the baffle material for rivets:
