OK, I also pulled the trigger and got one of these. Very nice model at a more palatable price point for me at this time.

I am working - much more slowly than I originally expected - on a Pentathlon Evo and definitely won't have it ready to fly for the first part of the season, which I why I decided to get this one.

Mastertch, would you happen to have a 1:1 pdf scan of your firewall? That would be really helpful as this is the first electric and the first composite-fuse pattern model I have assembled. Also do you have some photos of the RX/rudder servo/batterytray and a wider shot of the battery tray to give me a better idea of the layout? Also, any other reinforcements to stiffen the fuse? Seems it will need something extra, but of course I want it in the right places with a minimum amount of material.

I have ordered the CF/balsa sandwich material for the servo/rudder tray and also the CF/honeycomb stuff from ACP Composites, and some BVM Aeropoxy to glue it all in.

The motor to be used is the Himax 6330 (Pletty clone) and CC HV85 esc, Futaba 9154 ailerons, 9650 elevators, 9156 rudder. Batteries are 3 sets of Zippy 5000 5s and a couple sets of Rhino 4900 5s, which are significantly heavier than the Zippy's....

Last night I weighed the fuse/rudder and canopy together and my DigiWeigh scale indicated 950.2 grams, so somewhere along the way it has lost about 50 grams of weight.

The canopy alone weighs 132.5 grams vs jlkonn's 160 grams reported in the first post, so there's one full ounce right there. I will be scouring the posts to see how to mount it securely to the fuse while adding as little weight as possible.