About a week after the photos above, I received the following pictures from Beppe. This was an OMG moment. The similarity was striking! The 1965 original is on left; the newly created TBX on right...remarkable!!
COMMENTS??
Only after taking a detailed look at the two planes do you start to see differences, and some of those were intentional such as the difference in color scheme, plug-in wings, top hatch, and LG. We'll take a look at the LG later, but for now, Guido told me that his planes all use white transparent silk to show off the balsa grain and structure detail, and it does. It's quite attractive IMO.
It might just be the angle, but I think the vertical fin is taller on the original by a couple inches. The nose moment may be a bit longer as well