I did respray the plane, everytime I touched it the color soaked up everything! I sprayed dupont clear with a flat finish. I work at a body shop so we found a formula on the computer for flat clear ,it worked great. The plane wipes off easy.I was going to fly it for the first time yesterday but I lost one of the wing bolts. No one had a metric bolt with them. I forgot everything was metric on this thing.The engine was only built for about three or four years in the early 80's. Fox had plenty of problems with it losing a cylinder and overheating.fliteline solutions has a fix for it so I did the mods and seems a lot better, We'll see. I'll try to post a pic of the twin kougar, first four flights yesterday, AWESOME!!!! took home in one piece ,was a blast to fly. Rick