Joe,

Are you familiar with bending balsa?
The best way to go is bending the balsa first before applying over the ribs.
Take a pole , soak the balsa in water and ammonia and after an hour you kan bent the balsa carefully over the pole and wrap around gauze bandage.
Let it dry. When bending isn't possible in one step, use several steps.

After that the process you wrote.

Best shape of the pole would be the cross sectional dimension of the nose of the ribs and that would be an added effort but worth the good result.
For the Taurus of this thread, Oldest (successful) Taurus on Earth and the Simla, I made a bended turtle deck, not having the balsa blocks.

For wings I myself use a nose reinforcement in form of a balsa spar made of 10 mm balsa vertical positioned.

See for examples for bending balsa, START POST 40 of this page:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_79...tm.htm#8049000


Wing with nose spars:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_79...tm.htm#8237976



btw did you receive my information about the elevator lever and pivots?

Success, Cees