The Tanager is a wonderful airplane. This is the first one I built, learned the pattern with and won intermediate first time out. On my next one I'll ditch the surface mounted control horns and steel push rod and use a Tom Morris type control system with CF push rods.
The tail is quite springy. Next time not going to carve a shape into the fuselage blank just round off the edges. Also, I plan to beef up the thin fuselage behind the wing with 4 strips of 1/2" Dave Brown CF laminate, 2 down each side.
Mount the adjustable lead out guide on the smaller tip rib. Use a 4" bellcrank, make the elevator just like the plans. Round off the leading edge of the wing.
I built mine before I learned to build stunt ships and the kit wood was not 6 Lb balsa but, it came out at 54 oz and still flys really good at that weight. You don't need to lap joint your splices with plywood and epoxy lol.
The wing has allot of lift, you can really pop a corner without stalling the wing. Seems to handle wind and turbulence pretty good.
Definitely go with the .46 and, I fly mine on 63' lines with "E" power.
MM