I saw the .40 size Texan at the LHS and am not at all impressed with the quality. The covering is the same sticky-backed shelf paper as on many other less expensive ARFs. Not great, but tolerable. The hinges, however, are some some crappy thick plastic kind that literally fell out of the very imprecisely cut slots. The wood used is marginal looking too. It looks like really hard balsa, but I'm not sure.

Like anything else in RC, these VQ ARFs have their place in the market. To me, they are safer bets than most of the beat up old planes of questionable history and builder skill you see at swap meets . Just don't expect top quality as I've come to known from H9, WM, GP and others.