thanks everyone for helping to clear up how that cowel is suppposed to go together, il give it a shot and see how it looks, i would consider getting an aftermarket fiberglass one but since i live in canada i dont know of anywhere on the canadian side to get such things and to order one out of the us im gonna be looking at like 65 bucks by the time it gets to my door. seems a bit expensive right now for me, especially since im still leanring to fly id hate to nose over or something and break a cowel that expensive. ha ha not that i plan to fly it anytime soon, maybe next year. for now i think il fly the alpha 40 more and hopefully my dazzler that i have alll sitting waiting to get in the air, thank god for realflight simulator.lol my first plane was a .25 great planes p-40 warhawk it didnt las tto long in the air,lol. was flying it fine but caught a glare of the sun off the monokote and lost it in the air for a second. next thing ya no it planted into the ground. i was almost able to pulll out of it but it caught the landing gear and flippped it bad. so from that i learned to go to a larger slower flying trainer for a while which i dont have any problems flying but wanna get use to not being so nervous flying if at al possible,lol. but at least the dazzler should be fun and it floats in for landings nicely!