As I was building Waiex #0056, one of the parts of building that I knew I could do better was my wing leading edge skins. During the build, I was somehow able to deform one skin slightly, then I topped that feat by dinging up the other skin when I moved the airplane to my hangar! As a result, in order to save time I ended up filling the dings and painting the leading edges, but I've never been all that happy with the result. I put a wing rebuild/wing skin replacement on my airplane's "bucket list" to accomplish someday...
Old skins:
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v687/MikePGT/image_zps5f3ca54a.jpg)
This winter I finally decided to start working on this project. I purchased two new skins from Sonex right after Christmas and after prepping the new skins, I began the long process of drilling off the old ones:
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v687/MikePGT/image_zps053aed17.jpg)
This week I finally began the riveting the new skins in place, and was overall very happy with the results. Not perfect and they need a lot of polishing once it gets warmer, but overall I'm very happy with the results! I'd estimate the whole process took around 30 hours, but it really wasn't too bad. I also took the opportunity to run some wires in the ribs in case I add some landing lights in the future...another item on the "bucket list".
Bad pic but you get the idea:
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v687/MikePGT/image_zps1083527e.jpg)
Thanks guys!