RE: First Monokoting Experience: How bad is bad?
A few wrinkles here or there probably won't matter too much.... as long as the covering is attached and reasonably tight... Don't be too discouraged, like you said it's all practice and the next one you do will be better than the last and so on. As for how the imperfections will affect the flying... I had an LT40 which was rebuilt twice (and had numerous "minor" repairs) before being finally retired in a cloud of balsa splinters. By the time it was gone it looked like a banana it was so crooked! It flew kinda "funny" but it flew!
It's more important I think to get the airplane built straight and true than it is to have a "nice" covering job.