ORIGINAL: HighPlains
Build half the kit, throw the other half away and scratch build that part. Build the wings and tail from the kit, pitch the lite-ply fuselage and build it right from spruce, balsa, and aircraft plywood. Make the fuselage twice as strong at half the weight.
Now that sounds like a plan. I don't care for the light Itailian poplar plywood. The 1.5 mm (1/16") finish birch would be much stronger. Just have to make some slight adjustments on the fuse and formers. But I can you the light ply side s for a pattern.
Ok I going for the kit with modifications.....I'll put pics up ass I go.