A little update: I have to get the Lightning in flying condition by March 6th, as that is the only indoor at the Akron NEF venue before the actual NEF event. Just flyable, which means no paint, no details, probably no canopy or spinners as well. So before then I have to mount the wings (cut holes for spars and figure out how to secure it, install aileron servos and flap servos, attach the tail fins to the booms, install ALL the servo/control surface linkages, set up the fowler flap mechanism (if I can't do this before the 6th, it will be going there flapless for now), hope that the wheels get here in time and install them, sheet the inboard wing panels with foam, and cover up the rest of the airframe (cockpit nacelle/booms) with 80+ pieces of foam. Hopefully the joints between the covering of the inboard wing panels and fuselage/booms will come out good so I will have to do minimal work on those.
Then, before the NEF event rolls around on the 18th, I need to finish up whatever I didn't finish from the list above, make any necessary access panels, make the cockpit, sand everything down, add filler if necessary and if I have time, sand again, airbrush with all scale details with some things printed out on tissue paper (not the Kleenex kind
) if necessary, add guns, make more scale looking landing gear w/ gear doors, make spinners, add the superchargers to the booms, add cockpit detail like a seat/instrument panel/yoke if I have time....
Overall, very tight on time so wish me luck
