The glider nose cones are now equipped with pylons and attachment pins, and have been through the filling and sanding process.
The cones will not yet be glued onto the gliders until everything is primer'd and painted. The noses must be removable to allow for attachment of internal weights for glide trimming. It's also beneficial for the noses to be rotatable so that the attachment pins are on top for glide trimming.
All that repeated 'crashing' during trimming could risk breaking the pins, no matter how strongly they're built.
The main booster and gliders have now been shot with the first coat of primer. There are a lot of surfaces on this model to be sanded, so this segment of the build will take some time.
I'm hoping to have this bird flight-ready by the end of October.
Cheers!