All of these upgrades are making this an almost new kit, George. Really impressive.

My goal for today was to finish putting the rib tape on the top of the lower wing. I used Tamiya Mark Fit decal fluid on the right wing to snug things down. It worked fine, but the ends of the tape pulled away from the wing as it dried. I used some Gator Glue applied with a toothpick to lock the ends down, but a couple of the tapes broke. I wanted to try two new methods on the left wing to improve the process. First, I wanted to try using MicroSol instead of Mark Fit. Second, I planned to apply the Gator Glue while the decal was still soft. The results were less than spectacular. The MicroSol caused the tapes to curl in places, and it was very difficult to get the tape to lay flat again. I applied the Gator Glue right after I had smoothed things out, but several of the tapes broke apart. I have fixed the broken tapes and they are now drying, but I think I will stick with Mark Fit and Gator Glue. Tomorrow I plan to hit the entire top of the lower wing with some primer and see how everything looks. Cheers.

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Those ribs are impressive, George @gblair
Very realistic.

A great project George @gblair! i will enjoy catching up with this one!

Something to consider for next time George (@gblair). When I did my AMT A-20 last year, I wanted to replicate the look of the fabric stretched over the underlying structure of the elevators, rudder, and ailerons. What I did was make scans of these items and imported them into my vinyl cutting software where I duplicated the structure from drawings I found online. I created vinyl masks which I used to mask the shallow areas and sprayed the flight controls with primer. Then I very lightly sanded them to reduce the abrupt edges. When I painted them later, the effect was quite nice.

I think you could probably do some similar with fabric covered wings like what you did on the triplane. What you've done looks good, I am only passing on the technique because it can be an alternative if you want to use it.

With the rib tapes complete on the top of the lower wing, it was time to move on to the top of the middle wing. I have decided to complete the top of each wing, as well as the top of the horizontal part of the tail, before I do anything underneath the wings. I want to be sure I have enough of the rib tape to do the really obvious areas first. If I don't have enough to finish the less obvious places, I think I can use thin strips of Tamiya Tape instead. There is also stitching under the belly of the aircraft, so I took care of that today.

Using the rib tape from Quinta is interesting. I have used Quinta before, so I knew the basics. The rib tapes have their own idiosyncrasies that I had to get used to. If you have used Quinta products before, you know that you can't let them sit in the water for more a few seconds. If you leave these tapes in too long, they pucker and tear easily. The next trap is that if you take them out of the water and let them sit for more than about 30 seconds, they become unusable. The main problem here is that won't want to adhere to the model and curl very easily. Once they are on the model, don't plan on repositioning or moving them much because they curl and become unusable quickly. The basic idea here is that there is a "Goldilocks" time when everything works perfectly, but this perfect time isn't very long. So, the top of the middle and bottom wings are done, along with belly of the fuselage. Top wing and tail tomorrow. Cheers everyone.

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Looks excellent so far, my friend @gblair!