<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: medium">all i can say is i can't believe the thought of competing with any of the planes here thus far. totally awesome!!!especially with some of the tips going around. this is the kind of stuff i would never have thought of. i always mark with pencil or pen when getting ready to cut or trim something. one thing i did just think of (thank you Tom) is wearing latex gloves to keep the finger prints off the covering. then with the hiding the wires, you could fashion something up as a conduit, take the connectors off and feed the wires through from the tip of the servo to where ever they may go. that one is a normal one i use just for ease of "threading" servo leads after the wing is covered, instead of dropping a fishing weight through the ribs,tied to the end of the lead.or take the connectors off, feed them through painted drinking straws and put the connectors back on at the ends of them. i'll see if i can build something up to show my description a little easier than saying it. i know everyone knows what i mean, but now i'm anxious just to do it and see it for myself. but you guys got some mad building skills and ideas and this is totally awesome. i'm so going to use every detail everyone posts on here. i have a running list of things i think of when researching a kit to build that i want to "mod", and believe me, all this is going on it. i don't mean to copy-cat, but...this is all good stuff.i usually cheat long before time to build or even buy, for that matter, and download whatever manual i can find,put everything together so i can sit around looking at it all forever and think about it. drivesthe wife crazy too when we're sitting there watching the t.v. and i'm lookingat a building manual for a plane.one thing i do have to ask is regarding the dado joints. the wood is already pretty thin; how do you get the joints without going all the way through the other piece? i'm thinking from my shop class days in school, but isn't a dado basically the same as a rabbit joint? so to speak?

i'm almost leaning toward the kadet senior for the build. i've been looking to find other planes as well and am thinking about the sig hog and hog bipe, as they also have a lot of "built up" in their designs as well. just trying to eliminate as much of the sheeting as possible without eliminating the structural integrity that it provides. maybe some lightening holes wouldn't be pushing it too much and still look good??? just have to stack the fuse sides to drill them before building to keep them symmetrical. </span></span>