The sun is back, so I begin painting the mobile parts from the interior. Some parts are only partially painted as the reminder will be covered by the interior fabric.



The paint is grey Rustoleum with hammered effect. It is thinned 20% and paint gun sprayed. The final result is more than acceptable.

The weather being cold and rainy, it's not possible to work on the canopy or do some painting. After having worked a bit in the house, I decided to fabricate the brake lines. Two small parts have to be installed on the tubing, it's easy once the hose have been heated in hot water. Only one side is done, the other side will be done once the brakes are in the fuselage.



Then I took all the wheel parts out of storage. I have some reading to do before beginning the assembly.

After yesterday's work with proseal, I decided to continue today by sealing the main gear legs intersection with the fuselage.



I used some leff over proseal to put a small screen in front of the vent line openings.

Sabine helped rivet the two steps. The operation is complicated by the fact we choose to seal the installation with proseal. It's still messy to use and needs a lot of cleaning. Here is a view from the outside.



And here from inside.

We were thinking today's job would be easy and we would be able to flip the canoe early, but we noticed that the bottom forward skin was wrongly installed.
There is a side plate on the forward bulkhead that should be sandwiched between the bottom skin and the bulkhead, and we had installed the skin between the sideplate and the bulkhead. This could pose a problem when bolting on the landing gear mounts.
So we drilled out a hundred small rivets,which was easy, but also about thirty bigger rivets which was much less. The end result is we managed to reinstall everything and only have two bad looking holes that will get bolts instead of rivets.
Here is one of the rivet line we had to drill out.



Then we finished all the riveting left. To flip the whole assembly we first put the fuselage upside down on smaller sawhorses.



Then Sabine and Antoine came to help flip the canoe. Here are the first pictures, it looks quite big. Before working again on the fuselage, I'll cut some height of the wooden sawhorses to be able to work at more manageable height.
We resisted climbing into the cockpit considering the plastic sawhorses where not that sturdy.