The smoke picture is actually the first flight with it's Quadra 400, so it was off for all that first flight tweeking. The first picture shows it as it is now with a fiberglass specialities cowl. If you put fibergalss inside the kit's ABS cowl it will last about one season before it wears the mounting holes too large for any reasonable size screw.

It's a great plane, I'm sure you will enjoy it for many seasons.

Dave