Jeffski:

I see you used metal for the nose and cowling, and it looks really nice. I am not experienced in working aluminum, so I did my cowling as a fibreglass layup, and the rest of the metal work is actually 1/64 plywood.

Now that I know I needed so much nose weight, I would go with real metal in the future.

Also, I see you put in a more scale number and spacing of wing ribs. I would do the same if I built from these plans again.