There are only a few parts of the fuselage that will be visible to the passenger in the section that I am working on now. Most of these parts are sub floors, and interior supports. However, there are still a few parts and I remember having a hard time with the painting process of the interior of the 9 so I decided to prime the visible parts with an almost black epoxy primer. My hope is that the final coat will be tougher than on the 9 (less susceptible to scratching) but even if it does get scratched I hope that will be less visible with a dark primer under it.
This past week or so I have been priming, dimpling, deburring, and assembling the various bulkheads in the fuselage. Here is the progress thus far.
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| Rear seat inner tunnel bulkhead panels. These will be down in the foot well and as you can see have the front seat belt attach points riveted to them. The holes at the bottom of the panels are where the rear seat heat will come from. |
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| Its pretty hard to see the dark panels against the carpet but all 4 of the footwell panels are cleco'd in and you can finally start to see some structure come together. |
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| Side view but even here it's still hard to see. |
