It's now time to begin the assembly of the panel elements. I begin by installing the GPS antennas.



Both antenna cables have to penetrate the firewall but one connector being very big I don't want to drill a hole this side. I will use a split grommet and have the wires go through a hole at the top of the firewall.



This is how it looks ont the firewall.



And this is the stainless steel shield I made that will be screwed on later.



I installed a few items on the subpanel.



And then I bolted the fuseblock on the hinged panel.

I had to set a few missing rivets at the top of the fuselage frames. These are the first four.



Then some more above the luggage hold.



And those on the canopy brace. I then masked (not so well) the cabin to paint all the apparent parts.
The end result looks quite good, we'll try not to mess up doing the finishing.

The panel and all the smaller parts have been painted the same grey as the cabin. It seems the result is not too bad, we'll see after the paint is dry.

There were a few more rivets to set between the supanel and the fuselage. I will redo the paint later.

I needed almost two hours to set a dozen of rivets. It was almost impossible to use the squeezer or the gun. I had to drill a few rivets and used a few pop rivets.