Is it the Jensen kit or are you building from plans? Straight wing or with the dihedral? I would say if you have the kit, use the parts as templates and keep the kit in the box. If I was scratch building I would build the fuse out of 3/16 instead of 1/4. The plane is a tank designed when radios did not always work. I had a battery go bad in mine last year and I watched it circle till it hit the ground only broke the wing covering and one wing tip. Great plane.