Parts and Pieces

I've finished all the angle and channel parts and rearranged my work space to accommodate the completed parts on the shelves above my work bench. I've decided to work on the main skins at the time of assembly to keep me from moving these big pieces in and out of storage.





I'm now tackling the arduous task of deburring the wing ribs.  There is ONLY 52 of them!  Twenty six nose ribs and 26 aft ribs.  Each one isn't all that bad, but 52 of them is not fun. 

The welded parts come completed with the kit. So after this big, monotonous step I have the turtle deck formers (ribs for the round upper part of the rear fuselage) and the firewall/stainless steel parts to debur.  Also, on my breaks at work, I'll be drawing the flat sheet parts to be cut out of scrap channel and supplied sheet. After all that, I think, I repeat, I think I'll be done with the individual parts and ready to move on to assembly.  Oh yeah, I need to build a work table prior to that.  Maybe someday I'll be about to see some resemblance of an airplane.