You know, you could do a lot of things to this plane but if this is your first build though, you might just want to stick to the plans. This way you'll get used to how things are built and get ideas for modifications on future kits. This plane will be plenty fun when built stock, trust me. The only thing that I personally would strongly recomend is going with something other than the stock nylon pushrods. Plane old 2-56 wire will probably do the job just fine.