@RCKen, You're a little older than I am, where did you serve? I was in the '91 Gulf War myself. Yeah I hear you about the 4 or so same type of planes at the field. Funny cause lots of that goes on at the field I fly at too. When I fly the ARF Hangar 9 Alpha 40 people look at that plane and feel the same way. But when the Kougar rolls out on the pipe, that's a completely different story. I got in some paint from Reno yesterday so I've been able to paint the turtle deck on the Komet yesterday. This bird is friggin sweet and I'm sure it will get some interesting attention once it's at the field. So yeah, that is a big factor between the same birds at the airfield vs the one of a kind deals. Sort of on the same lines as how women hate showing up to a function all wearing the same exact thing, I suppose.

Now some of the really big birds like those 55% scale deals and such, I wouldn't even attempt building something like that. I wouldn't even try building a turbine aircraft, yet I am interested in perhaps getting one in the near future. I just don't have the knowledge base/lessons learned in regards to construction of such airframes and power plant systems. And it wouldn't be something I'd like to learn through trial and error.