On the electric side people seem to do lots of flat foam pushers to test their ideas.

I was thinking that it might be interesting to assign a couple of different mixes to the canard: no canard movement, up elevator = down canard, up elevator = up canard.

edit: I must have been thinking of some sort of a "canards as reverse flaps with elevator to canard mix" : when you are at higher AoA, flip a switch to get the canards to lower AoA. Better experiment on something cheap, though...