Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I tend to be picky about details and try to achieve a very scale rendition of an airplane but I also like to get out and fly. TF makes a well engineered airplane for the money that offers scale looks with predictable performance. I'm not offended and don't really care, to be honest. I have people think my SEAC Thunderbolt is a Spitfire or my RAF Mustang is a P-40 because it has a shark mouth on it. Will the majority of people who see my plane know the scale discrepancies? Nope.
I'm in the midst of bashing the TF Spit, getting glassed and detailed to look like a desert scheme MkIX flown in Italy. Once complete, it will look the part of a Spit, fly well, and give me hours of fun with my friends.
This is a forum, it is a place to talk about whatever plane is the new gotta have. It's ok to point out good stuff, or scale issues, or quality issues and so on. Like you said, it's not personal.
Last edited by SpitfireMkII; 10-29-2014 at 02:18 PM.