Alright, I have authorized Dan to show up in person and kick my A$$ if I haven't finished building this thing by 1 week from Monday.
I got the bottom deck attached, built the rear servo bay for the rudder into the bottom deck extension (had to do it twice!), skinned and attached the "cheeks". Right now I'm building the hatch which is right where I wanted to be time wise. I'll try to get some writing done this week and post pics.
The hatch is going smoothly except for one detail. The rear tabs are located such that one of them is going to interfere with the diagonal cross brace in the fuse. I've read the directions and looked at the plans and I think its a bug. I was planning to put blind nuts on the back of the hatch tabs and I may just leave that one off. With the way the hatch has to go in the blind nut is going to collide with the cross brace.
Looking towards the finishing stage; which do you guys like better?
I want to get away from the common colors. I want something simple and scale looking that's got good orientation visibility. I've been digging these two full scale paint jobs for a while.