Built a new wood cowl, made a small adjustable clevis for the elevator and access hatch, had the CF gear and felt this would be a good victim to use them on. They were too flexable for my Skylark but NobleARF-II is 10 ounces lighter. Recovered the fuselage and had to paint the nose, no way was I going to try to get Monokote to bend around the front of that cowl. Figured if I had to paint the nose might as well add some dress...
I don't like the flames on the landing gear, think I should have started closer to the fuselage. Might re-do them, I used vinyl on the landing gear instead of painting so it wouldn't be hard to remove and start over. Weight with cowl is 29 ounces, engine, tank, spinner and prop comes to 12 ounces. Going to end up with a ST 46 powered Nobler that weighs 41 ounces, maybe 42 if I need to add any tail weight.