bignasdy,

You did not say which version you bought. The newer Miss America version has slightly better gear that you might be able to get away with if you fly from asphault (maybe they will eventually make it onto Marie, who knows). I replaced the gear on my Marie with Robart mechanicals, recovered the plane in a different scheme to match an 8th Airforce Mustang that I like. I made a few more mods to make it look more scale, inluding a Top Flite canopy. That's about all I had to do beyond what was in the kit.

Both the H9 and WM are sport scale or stand-off scale, whatever you want to call it, but I personally prefer the H9 because it looks much closer to scale to my eyes. The H9 flies excellent and I've heard the same about the WM.

Greg