Hi,
One of the many other excellent models you might like to consider that will suit you motor and desires to move into scale look aircraft would be the Goldberg Super Chipmunk. This is a great model to fly and easy to add all sorts of details to reflect the late Art Scholl's air show ship.
Here in Australia there arn't too many that show up at scale flys so you have something a little different in civilian scale.
Cheers,
Colin