I snagged this kit at the local Hobbytown, total impulse buy. I've built a few of these back in the day, up to the big P-38. I never did any for RC, my budget as a youth did not permit. I tried to RC the 16" Me-109 years later with NiMh cells, but it was still too much mass. Crunch. Fast forward to today, and it's so easy to build microlight that all these little kits can be made into viable RC models, or rather this is my hypothesis.
So far as built, I'm at 64 grams, radio gear, battery, the "Hellcat" n'caboodle. I just have a few more panels to cover then paint, cowl & prop. I think I'll be sub 3 oz when it's done, which will be ~9 oz/sqft loading. If I want to "insurance claim" my spec, I can use the entire planform as "wing area" and do better, but I'll keep it as realistic as possible.
I'm at a standstill currently, as I have discovered that my servos are all of questionable quality; in fact, the wing servos both overheated and failed in under a minute on the servo cycler. I used a different servo for the elevator, of which I bought 4. I tested the remaining 3. Two of them failed in under a minute, the third went for the entire 3 minute run and still works. The one in the plane did also survive the 3 minute test, but no matter, it's mandatory extraction and replacement with servos bought from a dedicated microfilght supplier. I also got a lightweight RX that uses 1.25 mm plugs, so there's a few grams off. I just ordered the stuff from Buzzard models, my only anxiety is that it was not at all very expensive, in fact the defective ones from Amazon/ebay cost the same. Here's a few more pics of the build (yes, those are cloth "Band-Aids" for hinges):
