Augy, here's another great site for the 'moth http://tigermothsquadron.com/ with lots of good stuff. I just wanted to mention that with the flying wires and 1" wide clear mailing tape (I used 2", cut in half lengthwise) on the LE's of my plane, I have done loops and also cartwheeled it on the ground a couple times with no breaks (yet... ). Also, you might want to add CF rod ( I used 3/16" spruce dowel) to the inner sides of the outer struts. Not only does it make them stronger, but without it the struts will bend and look crappy. I think anything else to the wings is overkill. I used 8# test Berkley Fireline fishing line for flying wires...very thin and strong, also looks like scale steel cables... . You can find it at your local Wally-Mart.

For batts. the ones that everyone seems to agree on are 7-300 2/3 AAA Ni-MH. I bought a pack from aeromicro.com and they work great...lots of power and duration + they are light...always good.

I finally trashed the stock gear and bent a slightly stronger piece of music wire for new ones and added very light foam wheels...looks great. The stock gear are so flimsy that any kind of harder landing and your prop is in the dirt. One thing I did do for awhile is take 2 of the supplied rubber bands, looped them together to make one longer one, and then put it across the stock gear close to where the wheels mount. This worked good as it took the initial shock of landing and didn't let the gear spread as much...but my new gear work so much better....

Also, the stock GWS 9x7 props are REALLY brittle. I broke mine right away and tried a 10x4.7 GWS (out of 9x7's) and my TM actually flew better, + they are a lot more flexible.

Didn't mean to get long here, just thought maybe I could help you enjoy your TM more...I really like mine, makes me feel like a pro every time I fly it... !