Wow! A 5 1/4 year gap between responses.

I think I did mention something about the old Sterling kits, but actually with them, I've had good, and I've had bad, just llike about anything else in life. Most kit companies whose products I've built seem to have had very inconsistent quality. Actually, since my last post in 2005, I had the opportunity to give up on and scrap an unidentified oriental kit someone gave me that was mainly something that passed for light ply, which I hate anyway. Separating the parts led to many breaks, the stuff was so brittle. Even the balsa was of varying density, even worse than any Sterling Comet or Guillows kit I ever built.

Actually, except for that one example, almost any kit I've ever built ended up as a stronger, more durable plane than almost any wood ARF I've triied.