Thanks Bob. Actually, I had already seen your pictures in another thread and "borrowed" heavily from your design. As they say, "Stealing from one is plagarism, stealing from many is research."
I'll consider the hard fixed all-wood approach. I'll have to come up with a clean way to attach and remove the undercarriage since on the Pup, it attaches to the fuselage in the front and the lower wing in the back. The existing rods make that easy.