It certainly does seem like a good alternative!

if you go that route, I would appreciate you doing something for us. Consider it umm...like homework or something LOL

After primer is sanded and you are reay to start spraying base and colors, weight the fuselage. Preferrably without tape and masking and tolling parts attached.

After painting, weight it again in the same exact condition, so we can see exactly how much weight was added from the paint. That is critical need-to-know info. Don't assume tape weighs nothing for instance, you'd be suprised.

if that's too much trouble, then don't bother, but I would love to know as this gives us all more information to pull from at times like this.

-Mike