RE: Balanceing?
I had a 46AX on mine and need no weight anywhere.
Once you are done with it as a trainer, change the main gear to the dubro fiberglas stuff, move it forward and turn in into a taildragger and go have a blast.
In fact. Take off the stock main gear and nose gear, go get the Dubro Fiberglass main gear and a Fults dual strut nose gear and you will not be rebending the stock gear on every other landing plus you will gain about 2 inches ground clearance and about 2 inches width on the main gear which will give you better ground handling. and it's no added weight over the stock stuff and will cost around 30 dollars total to do.