Stabilizer

Okay, so I ordered the tail kit. The first parts to build were the front and rear spars.  They are pieces of channel stock reinforced with angle stock doublers.

Here's a picture of the rear spar

The piece in the middle is the rear attachment plate, and I had to cut it out from a channel.  I had trouble drilling the corner of the cut section, and had to ask the kit makers if it was OK.  They said it was...

Anyway, the spars are connected by ribs, and held with temporary rivet replacements called "clecos".  The skeleton, drilled and clecoed, looks like this: