Dennis,
I weighed the wings so far and they weigh 7 oz which includes the tip weight box, cover and screw. They should come out finished with Monokote, flap horn, pushrod, and hinges at 11 - 11 1/2 oz. I used 3/32 balsa for the Warren Truss work on the flaps and elevators. I could of used 1/16, but I get tired of repairing the 1/16 from my heavy fingers.
1) Front mount, but no nose ring. What you see is a ply insert between the motor mounts to tie the front end together. Some on the forums think it is a waste of time, I don't. The front motor mount will be something special. Stay tuned!
2) The fuselage will be sheeted with 1/16 7# balsa on each side. The width will be 3/4 overall with the fuselage tapered to 1/4 from the stab hinge line to the tailpost. Hence the solid balsa. The plane will be all Monokote. No worries of oil and a light finish to boot.
The battery will sit inside of a pocket and the ESC and timer will be like on my Primary Force. My goal is 48 ounces. It looks like so far I'll beat it. The stab will have .25-.5 degrees of positive incidence, the motor will have 1 degree of down thrust and 2 degrees of right thrust to begin with. There will be a scoop on the inboard side. If you look closely you'll see it. It serves 2 purposes. To help cool the motor and I don't like a spinner overhanging a profile inboard side. The plane won't need a tripler and a tripler will make it a little more difficult to cover, so why bother? The spinner arc will be within the scoop outline.
It's made so if I want to run a 3026 motor I can. Possibly do some testing in prepartion for a full up electric stunter next year.....you've been warned!