I wanted to make a larger slow flying, "floaty" plane, and went with the Flitetest Storch.  She was made pretty much to plans, with a couple modifications:

• I added lower guy wires to support the wings when in flight.  This is based on others feedback, and the fact that the wing design I didn't think strong enough to resist folding.  I've not had a problem with this setup.
• For the motor pod, instead of putting spacers between the fuselage and the swappable motor pod, I just made a custom motor pod that was wider, and would fit directly.

With this project I reinforced and going forward, all the skewer holes with credit card plastic, which has been a fantastic help in durability and longevity.

I found that the ailerons are not nearly as much as I like.  If I was remaking it, I would have made them extend inboard more.

As my first plane that I exclusively took off from the ground (instead of hand toss), this was the first time I found that I really needed to start laminating more of the foam.  Some of the undersides, especially on the horizontal stabilizer and elevator, were soaking up water thrown up from dew on the grass.  It's not been a problem yet, but is wearing them out faster than I would have liked.

Rose is a lot of fun to fly.  She flies so very slow and gracefully.  She'll take off in 4 feet easily.  The flip side is that with such a thick wing profile, it's a high drag, preventing faster flight.  Likewise, she doesn't handle the wind very well.  With so much lifting, a gust can shoot her up or down, and it can be very slow to make any upwind progress.

I burned out her motor last fall, and have not gotten to replacing it yet.