The R/D is in, it is the bare cable in this picture, the sleeve you can see is waiting for my future dropper's cable

I don't think you can use that part of the cable guide for your dropper. That cable guide leads you to the FD (at the back of your seat tube).
I don't what kind of cable the dropper have, cable or hydro. In case of cable, I think you need to use a full hose from the dropper, through your frame, to the handlebar. But as I said, I don't have any experience with a dropper.

I installed the cable for the r/d , took out the liner when finished an managed to put back in.
I took it out again and will leave it out and keep it untill I want to replace the cable.

What do you think of the construction underneath the bottom bracket now your RD cable is installed? Do you think it will stay for a couple of years? I'm afraid of the wear at the point where the cable is going through the guidance

Next up is the rear brake cable, my brakes are Shimano XTR's
The brake cable does't fit through the liner that came with the IP-256 so i think I will just tape the liner and the brake cable together and try to get it throughmostly pushing and not pulling.
Anyone here with experience and advice here?
It is of course extra tricky because I don't want to lose to much brakefluid....

Maybe replace the liner with a stronger one (if you don't trust the one that already in it)? On my brake cables, which are new and unused, I've got caps on the ends. But I think I've to remove them, otherwise they will not fit the frame hole. I think I'm going to use tape to prevent losing brake fluid. And maybe pushing from the bottom to the top is the best way ?

No carbon paste, grease if anything.

To be sure: grease like the grease you're using for ball bearing/BB ?
And do you use the grease between the frame and bearing ? Doesn't hurt the frame ?

You painting all one solid color or some type of design?

I'm going for a design. And under the down tube maybe an area to protect the frame.

Bought myself a high sophisticated  kitchen scale today. I'm not a weight weenie, but just interested.

Remarkable: most indicated chinese weights are very accurate

With all indicated weights, I expected a weight of 9943 gr (21.9lbs), but now with some actual weights, it goes to 9786 gr (21.6lbs).


Updated buildlist (also in the first topicpost):

The more I think about it, Plasti-Dip seems like it should be very benign.  Anything you can just peel off later, can't be too bad for most any surface.

I agree. But here in the Netherlands, there is a webshop selling Plasti Dip. But they only sell red matte Plasti Dip to business consumers, not you and me. This is because there's a higher concentration of Tolueen. And red matte is just the one I want
So, I was wondering what would be the impact on the carbon for this 'high concentrated Tolueen' color. I think it's not a problem.
And I'm not in a hurry to build my bike (still waiting for some parts), so, I've some time to test

I did a little Plasti Dip on a carbon part of the frame.
When my XT group arrives, I will start building up my bike and look how the carbon holds underneath the Plasti Dip.