I agree. I have them both also and I compared the Spit & the H9 P40 and for the money, I went with the Spit. Covering looks great. I'm still building it and should have it done next week or so. It looks like more work installing the retracts will be needed on this one then on the H9 P51 that I built.

I'll post pics here as I build. I am putting a Saito 100 in mine. I'm breaking the engine in on my Stik as I do with all new engines I use for warbirds. The plane should come out nice and light and be super fast.

How do you reccomend beefing up the stab? I always use fiberglass cloth and epoxy on the firewalls of my warbirds and paint as much of the inside of the fuse as I can reach with 30 minute epoxy cut in half with alcohol. this strengthens them quite a bit and adds very little extra weight.