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Took some pictures of the Kits, many pieces and unique build jigs to do the wing panels, and a first for me , no plans, but assembly pictures with the Instructions.

Have a look here for the Wiki Build in the mean time.

There seems to be a lot of pieces, there are no plans so time must be taken to get familiar with the various parts There are 3 panels on each wing side, each panel uses a different CF spar diameter.

Jigs/ molds are used to assemble the wing pieces before gluing, some preassembly and lamination of parts is also required.

Fuselage

The fuselage sides are a lamination of exterior balsa and inner ply, of course you’ll need a left and a right side. Watch for the guidelines on the balsa , they are used to align the ply doubler, not to be cut away.. I use titebond to glue these together

The formers that set around the tailboom require some sanding to fit to the locations as shown in the assembly instructions. All ply formers are easily removed from the sheets once the tabs are cut, watch closely for end grain tabs as they seem to hold to the sheets better they the others. I usually work from the back side of the sheets.

Molds, wing assembly Jigs

there are 6 assembly jigs that need to be glued together, the uprights push out quite easily and arrows indicate where the corners fit into the windows. It seems to me I came across one instance where the arrow was wrong. The upright posts help define the location of the Trailing edge, spar, and root ribs. Although I have found the diagonal tip rib on the tip panel, does not mesh with the jig and it appears I will place it into TE slot and LE rod rib intersection. In some cases the root ribs set on the outside of the uprights and others on the inside. The root ribs are set vertical and later sanded to create the necessary dihedral angles

Panel Build

There are pictures below, in no particular order

I followed the instructions to assemble the panels

• I followed the instructions for panel assembly
• sanded all rib and sub rib tabs
• confirmed that all ribs slid on spars
• in some cases sanded spar tubes as required
• apply strips of carpet tape to trailing edge perches as well as two perches for spars
• thread all ribs and half ribs onto spar, (note left and right)
• affix trailing edge, properly align to match with corresponding root rib
• place spar which includes all ribs onto assembly jig and press onto tape
• use jig G5 to align and place the full ribs, being careful when moving ribs on spar, using appropriate fork, note one leg of G5 fits into corresponding slot on jig base
• being careful to align all full ribs and root ribs and making sure all sub ribs are more or less in their correct position I begin the gluing of root ribs and full ribs first
• root ribs are aligned to jig posts and glued at notches in trailing edge and at spar
• next glue all full ribs similarly using G5 to locate at spar and notches at TE aft