It get's even bigger than her as you put it together. It is a beautiful airplane.
We are putting the Saito 1.80 4-st with Keleo Creations muffler in mine.
Not sure where we went wrong on the build with mine, but the retracts (mains) only took a couple of hours total to install including the doors. After reading the reviews and entries in the thread I was very concerned about it.
Heck, about the only thing we didn't follow the instructions on was when it said to "Use a Dremel to cut a relief into the wing to insert the wheel collar/keeper for the gear door wire". Seemed like a huge waste of motion - we just bent the wires about 15-degrees where they came out of the strap. They cant back out, but if I need to remove them , I just take out the two screws holding the strap in.
All we have left to do is the throttle, elevator and tail-wheel retract servo installs. Everything else is done. Should fly mid January! Yes, we can do that down here on the Gulf coast....