Joe, A pictures says a 1000 words. Very Nice job. I like how the canopy finished out. Wish I had painted mine. I noticed you mounted your antenna on the outside. Hm....I didn't. I know there are different schools of thought on this one. I mounted mine inside the fuse. I used an antenna tube and made two 'small' ply formers to add to the wing saddle formers to hold in place. Felt this would also strengthen the fuse in this area. I know, weight! Very small pieces of ply. You seem to have much experience with this plane and those of others. Anyone else do this with bad results? I am just a bit concerned about the antenna running through three servos in the tail. They are very close to the antenna. I have done this many times in larger airplanes with no problem. I did a range check and didn't get any noise, but still thinking about this one.

I did cut the axles and used 256 machine socket head screws with small washers and 'Team Associated' minature safety nuts. Very small and probably about the same weight as leaving the axle length as is but you have a clean finish to the wheel pants.