Well the way I see it is this: I'm going to give SPAD a try for a simple fun design... something to throw around at the field... I've wrecked my share of wooden fun planes...

My big scale birds will stay balsa I think... They stayed wood when other people started buying or making fibreglass kits, so... I just love the sight of that big, all wood plane standing on my table just before covering it all up... and thinking to myself: "you did a good job on that one"...