@ ratshooter,
Cool. I've thought about trying some of the SPAD designs from the
www.spadtothebone.com website, but I guess I'm in some sort of halfway limbo between the SPAD construction styles (i.e. aluminium fuz/boom) and more traditional r/c plane building.
WRT Monokote, I was quite tempted to get some when I visited a hobby shop just outside Toronto back in April, although I'm very happy with how well Profilm / Oracover works.
Here's a few pics of the Byron Originals Pipe Dream, the plane that started all the 'departing from the conventional r/c plane' thoughts (for me) in the late 80's:
