After fitting the wings I applied lots of wax to the fuselage and then used thickened epoxy to fill out the remaining gaps between the wings and the fuselage. The fit is now perfect.

Using a template I also glued the carbon tubes for both sides of the v-tail into the tailboom. Like the original, both sides of the v-tail are slightly off-center.

In-between I sanded back the canopy frame and applied an extra two layers of 100gr glass on top. I also did some work on the instrument panel and the seat pan.

Most importantly: time for a first fitting together of all the bits! it’s starting to look like a Monerai now. Still lots of work to do though. Next steps are to glass the wings and tailpane, finish fitting the tailplane to the tailboom and fitting the tailboom to the fuselage at the correct incidence. I’ll also need to start working on the fixed landing gear. More on all that later.