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I'm "this close" to finishing off covering the fuselage but I'm stumped on the best way to attach the fabric to the gear/wing strut attachment. I have the belly fabric attached to this area after a fashion but I'm not happy with it. Anyone have some pointers or photos to share on this?

And a variation on the same theme

I've seen some who appear to have covered the ailerons and flaps before fitting to the wings and some apparently do them at the very end of the wing build sequence. I started to begin mounting the hinge brackets to the ailerons per the plans with the intention of covering them and then stopped...

This general subject has been beat to death on the Vans Air Force site and there are agreements and disagreements of course: https://vansairforce.net/community/showthread.php?t=163771 My installation is almost identical to this: Since this installation, Tom Swearingen at Aircraft Specialty...

Finished covering the top and tail. I'm happy with how it all came out, other than the lowest rib on the VS being pulled up a little by me prematurely shrinking the fabric above it. I have a removable aluminum center section for the cabin roof mounted with almost 50 6-32 screws (it ain't coming...

I ripped the old fabric off and am taking a different approach which involves wrapping the VS by itself and then when I cover the top of the fuse, I'll bring the fabric back, split it and then wrap it around the already covered stab. All of this will be attached to the bottom rib with stitching...

Started covering the vertical stab this weekend and put the initial shrink on the starboard side. It pulled the side of the fabric way over away from the rib. There's no way I can pull it into the rib without ripping the fabric. I can't figure out what I did wrong. Any ideas?

And the port side covered this weekend along with a start on the VS

Covered the starboard side this weekend. Glue, iron and tape, glue, iron and tape...and so on

Not a bad weekend at all. Covered one side of the baggage area with heavy cloth. Ran out of heavy cloth so didn't get the other side done, so I went ahead and covered the bottom of the fuselage with the medium cloth. Surprisingly easy, which only means that I've screwed something up somewhere in...

So, I'm trying to settle on a strategy for my interior. As I've mentioned before, I'm building a utility vehicle here so I'm not terribly concerned about having a luxury interior, but i do want it to look decent (whatever that is). I'm thinking of covering the lower parts of the interior to...

I decided that I needed a rotisserie since the idea of painting on my back seemed a little over the top for me and my 65 year old back. It's no work of art or close to some of the masterpieces I've seen, but it appears to get the job done. Like many others, I took advantage of a Harbor Freight...

Spent many hours in the shop and rerouted the wiring bundle from the back of the plane in prep for covering. Installed the stick grips and wiring. Doesn't sound like much does it, but I can say I made forward progress nevertheless!

I've searched and can't find much about how people have routed their control stick wiring. At this time, I'm thinking I'd route the wiring for each stick through a hole drilled at the bottom of the vertical portion of the stick, probably the aft side of the stick and then route everything...

I am almost done with covering the empennage and need to add drain holes before I seal all of it with Ekobond. Of course, the answer is to put them where water would collect, but I was wondering if anyone had photos of where they put theirs. I'm planning small round doilies to reinforce the...

I'm talking about the below. I got 6 of them in the kit and their purpose is to provide a way to terminate the fabric around the empennage hinges

I finally finished covering my elevators and now it's onto the rudder. I am in a quandary trying to figure out how to terminate the fabric by the rudder horn. I've used the aluminum brackets furnished in the kit for the elevators and the rudder top, but I won't be able to use the last one by the...

My finished panel arrived today: I created the layout and had Steve Schurwald at Aircraft Specialty Flightlines (www.asflightlines.com) fabricate it out of .090 6061-T6, powder coat and screen print it.

Got started on rib stitching the horizontal stabs. I'm using the staggerwing stitch and pretty happy with how my first attempts at how this turned out.

I've covered both trim tabs and am wondering if the little brace needs to be rib stitched. It's not a rib per se and with the thinness of the brace, I wonder if it would even be harmful to attempt it. I plan to put a piece of tape over it for reinforcement in any case. Thoughts?