I have had this kit sitting around for a while and thought I would start building it. Well, it has been a few years since I built a kit and this is only my second build. The first one did come out pretty nice and I didn't think I would have much problems with this one.

Well, here is my first problem; hopefully my only one.

I grabbed the wrong pieces of wood as I was cutting. No big deal right, go to the LHS and buy them over and learn my lesson. So I get to the LHS with pieces of the wood that I need. But they don't have the type of wood listed on the parts list. So I have three questions.

1. Is it ok to switch spruce wood for bass; it is suppose to be used for the wing spar. They only had spruce, no bass.

2. Can I mix the two? i.e. spruce on top and bass on bottom or vice versa.

3. Should I cut out the bass I used for aileron braces and replace with balsa as the instructions said to use or just leave it.


Maybe I should have built the SSE kit I have first, but I do plan to build it next.

Thanks for the help.

Oh yeah, almost forgot.

What do I sand with? Is it first with 200 then finish sand with 400? I forgot what grain paper to use.

Ok, so that is more then three questions. Who counts on here anyway? LOL