After finishing the frame for the canopy, I installed it onto the plane. Turns out the canopy release system I fabricated with the fuselage was it satisfactory. There were slightly offsets which caused the pins to bind when trying to close the canopy. Although I was able to work it in, I elected to rebuild the piece with greater precision and it was amazing how much difference it made. Once I got that installed properly I noticed the skins did not align perfectly with the fuselage skin. After trying to “pull” it outward (it was off by about 1/16”) I elected to remove it and rebuild the bottom bracket and include a shim of .020” skin which tucked in nicely between the frame and the inside of the skin and allowed the outside skin to sit perfectly flush. These details cost me hours of time but gave me great pride to see a perfectly flush surface between the canopy skins and the fuselage. Next I sanded down the many high spot on the inside of the canopy lol where it meets the skins in order to help create a straight line torwards the end of the curve. This proved to be a long and tedious process but I read ahead and saw that we would be sanding down further on the outside so once I got the fuselage to sit flush I left it alone. I used straps (per the instructions) to hold the canopy flush with the canopy frame forward skin while I began the process of match drilling. Surprisingly the match drilling was simple and took only about 1 hour. Once that was all finished we moved the canopy to the table and removed all the clecos holding it into the frame. The aft edge was a little too long to sand so I trimmed it with a dremel before sanding it to the final trim line. This was my least favorite and most nerve wracking activity, Glad I got it done with no “slips of the hand”. Once all that was finished I decided to paint the interior. I had been putting this off for quite some time. I remove a lot of hardware and even some pop rivets that held the black nylon pieces so those would not get painted. It looks very good even though I have an “orange peel” finish which is a sign of an amateur painter, it's a nice uniform finish so I actually really like it. I decided not to sand it down with finish grit paper and add a top coat of clear poly, I like the finish I got from just yhe polyeurethane.