There are a couple of pictures of Dr. Dean's fuselage construction at the bottom of http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/columbia/columbia.html . If I remember correctly, it weighed something like 10 pounds less than a typical KR2S fuselage (even though it's longer and wider) but is far stronger due to the composite construction. He created a novel system of bending up the cross-sectional pieces by steaming thin strips of spruce and laminating them in a jig while glueing them into varying widths.
As far as I'm concerned, the best candidate for finishing this thing is a body repair man, because getting all of those compound curves smooth is going to take an expert... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
