They're both awesome planes, and I've always been interested in the T-Craft as I occasionally fly in a full-scale T-Craft with a friend.  To me, the Clipped-Wing Monocoupe wins out,although I have to admit I went back and forth about a hundred times before deciding.  although I fly in a full-scale T-Craft, I'm a sucker for Golden Agers, and I'm a sucker for wheelpants and round engines.  I mean, BAD......

I already have a Waco UMF-5.

As far as which of these two models builds up better, I haven't got my Monocoupe yet, it just shipped out to me yesterday  (Yay!), and as you know, the T-Craft has been on backorder for some time and only seems to be released in small amounts.  

So I'm going to go with what I know here.  I've read through the threads for both of these and the Clipped Wing Monocoupe hs been getting GREAT reviews for the building, the manual (I downloaded it and printed it out so I could sleep with it at night, it really is a great manual), and the flight characteristics.  Even with gassers much bigger than 30CC they are not having any real trouble with all the extra weight.  30CC and down they say it's perfect.  I've been watching the videos, they're really stable on landings and approaches and they can really cut loose up there for aerobatics.  Don't ask me about hovering, don't know about that and don't care.  I'm into the older aerobatic birds, I always have been.  The Monocoupe in its day won all the aerobatic shows.  The landing gear on this has a few reports of "spreading", but I rarely have problems with that as I can grease almost anything almost all the time.  But as it's a reported (small) issue I thought I'd mention it.

As for the T-Craft, the thread is full of people having this break off or that not holding together.  It's a Hangar 9 product, and Hangar 9 products just seem to have a number of things wrong with each model, as though they know there's a handful of things but they don't want to take the time to iron them out.  There's always a few weak items.  Most of them don't bother me, but wing struts failing and flying braces breaking, those are disconcerting to me.  It's a bit like having everything working good on your parachute but that little rip cord sometimes doesn't stay attached when you yank it

So, those are my observations and speculations.  I'll be getting my Monocoupe within the next week, and I have promised to document my build on it.  Just so you know up front, I'll be tossing the foam tires in the rubbish, making my own flying wires with something like a Sullivan kit, and changing the rear gear to a Sullivan standard one-piece steerable gear set, which looks much more scale than what comes with it and will work a hundred percent better!  I'll be powering it it with a Syssa 30CC which is exactly mid-range by CC size, but by weight it's small and by power it's bigger than that, according to what I can glean from all I have been reading.  Reality is another thing altogether at times!  I will try to use some of the hardware if it's up to snuff, but my rod ends are almost always changed to the Sullivan black-plastic clevises with locks, and they are attached by using solder-on threaded rod ends.  My planes don't crash from failures, so those are what I like to use.  Being a good solderer is the biggie for this.

Well, I don't know if this helped, but I'm out of breath and I'm supposed to leave for work in 10 minutes and I still haven't showered!

Jimbo