Mine came with a painted red fiberglass cowl, no stipres, very crappy fit, but it works. I thought it looked retarded with no stripes on it to match the plane so yes, I painted those stripes on there myself. And if I must say so myself - Dang they look good!!

It may not seem like it from the picture, but the wheels I put on there are actually 2.75" wheels. They're quite a bit larger than the tiny ones that the plane came with so obviously the wheel pants are not going to fit. I bet the stock ones are only 1.25" or so - they're little suckers for sure. The landing gear I put on actually came off of one of my Hanger 9 Twist 40's. I've had two of those planes and I demolished one [X(], hence the extra landing gear for this plane! Ya, my wheel pants were also plastic. I figured they wouldn't last one flight while taking off/landing on the grass. I do fly on asphalt sometimes but figured I'd be upgrading to different gear anyways.

So I'm happy to hear that this plane will slow down for me. I've had that engine in a trainer type plane before and it will idle rediculously slow (great engine!) - but that doesn't necessarily mean the plane it's in will go rediculously slow. So I'm glad to hear this is a good little plane.

Anyways, I'll let you know how the first flight goes if I can get some good weather to try it out. Thanks for your comments and help.