Dome sanding and skin mounts

I've been doing a lot of dome prep work.  I marked and removed all of the panels from the outer dome and de burred the edges.  I then set to work sanding the spin lines out of the outer dome.  It's hard work.  To take a break tonight, I thought I'd attach the skin mounting brackets that I made from aluminium angle.

First I traced the shape of the frame ring against the aluminium then cut and filed them to shape.  This gave me two of these...

I then mocked up the inner skins around the frame which allowed me to see what height I was going to mount the brackets.

Once I Drilled through the side plates and attached the brackets, I offered the skin snaps up and I found that there were two moulded pieces on the back that prevented them from sitting flush.  I took my current favourite file and filed off the offending pieces.  Before and after pic here...

So they fit a lot better now.

So now I've ordered some more stainless steel hardware to continue the skin mounting part of the build and I'll continue with the dome sanding.  More to come soon.