Wheel pants and fairings
How about this for an exciting update: Still working on wheel pants and fairings. Much fiberglass dust. Not so much fun, but better than doing it later at the hangar under the wings.
First step is to get the forward and aft halves of the wheel pants to fit together. I found that the flange edge on the rear half was pretty straight, so I just focused on trimming the front half to match. Then I drilled some mounting holes to hold the two halves together. Then a bunch of trial fit and trim to get the wheel pants to generally fit over the wheel and gear leg. I stretched a string to represent the centerline of the fuselage and took my alignment measurements from that line. After a bunch of measuring and adjusting, I got the right wheel pant drilled in alignment to the brackets. Oh yeah, before all this, I leveled the fuselage and lifted all the weight off of the mains with the engine lift setup. Works great.
