Will follow your build with great interest. Have that kit in the basement, 2 years now, it is a future build but purchased when I had funds. Building my first kit now, DC3 at least 3 kits away. Will build it as a Canadian Air Force Dakota. First plane I flew in at cadet camp in 1966. Interesting point about the engine out problem. I have decided that by that time I will be electric. Mine will have the proper retracts as I had funds to get them when I got the plane.