Spent the rainy morning cleaning and etching parts in anticipation of a nice afternoon. Weather forecast held and had good painting weather in the afternoon. Actually used up all of my green primer. The coverage is a little thin on some parts but I got good coverage on all the mating surfaces and all exterior surfaces. Besides running low in paint, priming went really well with light coats - no fisheyes or other defects I had when I did heavier coats. Primed the rudder horn with left over gray since it will be exposed.

Got everything dimpled and assembled a few parts. Made the mistake of assembling the bottom rib prior to dimpling; that made it thought to dimple some of the holes but was able to get them with the dimpling bar I made for the practice kit. I did mangle one hole with the squeezer while dimpling a tight hole on the bottom rib. Drilled it out to a #30 and used a -4 “oops rivet”.

Ready to back rivet the skin stiffeners.