Ok, so I'll go with that, though from what I remember of the Stearman, it wasn't difficult to do at all and it was a Guillows kit. Let's set my sights a little higher than average, though shall we? The Mystery Ship plans are old Cleveland plans from back in the 30's or so. I'll attach a page to give you an idea of what I mean, though you may already be familiar wth them. Plus, my lifelong interest in aviation might help a bit, and modeling skills from way back when, building plastic models and some fairly decent woodworking skills.

What do you think of this:

[link=http://cgi.ebay.com/Guillows-802-Model-Airplane-Kit-CESSNA-SKYHAWK-172-/290482856329?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a220 a189]Cessna 172[/link]

I figured if I decided I did want to take up flying, it would be a decent trainer, but to be honest right now I am more in it for the project.

BTW, I have about 1500 model plans if anyone wants them. Some I gathered on my own as part of a massive archive of 3-views I have collected, a lot are from a CD of them I bought. They range from simple wood models to Wylam drawings, to CAD drawings of plans. I was looking for an outlet for them. My 3-view archive is about 9 Gigs right now...