Working on the lower wings. This work comes in phases: The internal structure, adding the skin, and attaching to the fuselage.
The kit provides a design for the ribs, really narrow things what include a slot to cut out and, on the ribs, closest to the fuselage, holes for support wires. The picture below is for the upper wing, but the lower wings are basically the same.

I have never successfully cut this rib design out, never mind pushing the spar through the ribs. I took another approach to assembling the wing structure. I cut out the ribs not with a slot but with a notch on the bottom of the rib. The ribs are glued at the slot to the spar. My approach is trim the forward and read of the ribs and in its place attach pieces of .032 K&S music wire. The attachment is made secure with folded strips of velum paper glued to the rubs.

The effect that i want to achieve is a straight wing, fore and aft and the leading edge have a good looking radius.
I add cardboard support in the area where the vertical wing supports will go, and the structure and the skin is pre-painted a matching color to the ink.

The paper is folded over, the leading edge wire is trimmed and the aft pin is trimmed completely off, as the aft part of the wing does not directly attach to the fuslage. A second pin is added, sliding it in just aft of the spar.


The leading edge is straight and the fold is consistent along the length.

Two holes are drilled using the pin vise; these have to be carefully positioned to place the wing in the proper position. In this picture, one of the covers is in a bad location and had to be removed, to be replaced later with a new cover positioned higher up the fuselage.
