Here I am riveting the left leading edge. The leading edge skins are riveted to the nose ribs in a cradle. Later, the whole assembly is riveted to the rest of the wing.


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Here is the left leading edge after riveting to the nose ribs. You can see the reflection of the rest of the wing in the leading edge skin.

I managed to drop the bucking bar and make a small ding in the top side of the right leading edge :-(. I think I can tap the ding a bit to at least make it be a depression instead of a bump. I can fill a depression when I paint the exterior.

Oh well, I had already given up on making a show plane. I just want an airworthy aircraft that doesn't look too bad. Maybe I can at least have one good looking side, so I can sort of lead visitors over to that side, and make sure they don't see the other one ;-).