Vertical Stabilizer Complete!

A few more rivets, and before I knew it the first part of the build is complete! Feels great to be able to check this box, but after a short break running around the garage holding this thing up like a flag and making airplane noises (I wish I was kidding), back to work!

Actually tonight was a pretty short night building. I used my back-riveting plate for the first time, and back-riveted the skins to the rudder. It worked great! It was pretty quick work, but made it look like a lot of progress!

Both R and L rudder skins, after back-riveting the stiffeners into place

I think the next step before I actually assemble the two halves is to figure out exactly what I'm going to do with the rudder trim tab. A few of the parts came today (including the ProSeal for the trailing edge), so I should be able to start on this endeavor tomorrow. That's all for now!