It's depends where you fly or your landing field.
The front wheel wants to dig into soft spots on dirt or grass.
It'll actually cause the model to nose over, damaging the prop or the vetical stab.
Depending how rough your strip is...a nose wheels actaully is worst becuase of the bouncing.
You don't really have control...you kind of guide it.lol

I basically did the samething to my ace-40....I just glue a pilot figure to the wing.
The build up the deck accordingly in front.
You can just add 1/16 dowls for the rear deck. if you want.
It's semi scale. I thought about just using a 2 or 3 liter bottle for the cowling, but I just left it for easy access to the engine.
I did the samething to a Modeltech stick..but i clipped the fence...and it killed the model before I could bash it more.
I had 5" wheels on it even.lol

Going tail dragging is a natural prgession if you want to fly an extra or other models.

Most if not all models fuselage are box design wiith decking or flaring...etc

You can bash a stick from the basic box.