If I were to be honest I would say I`m not completely satisfied with 'assembling' and flying ARTF's but it is a quick way of enjoying the hobby. ! spent many hours in my very early teens (with a hard backed razorblade) building free-flight models and pre-cuts were not as common so everything was cut from printed sheet on many doped tissue covered planes and gliders therefore one with die-cut parts was a luxury. The quickest builds utilised coloured pre-cut sheeting for all parts, wings, tail, fuselage sides etc. However these came on the scene a bit later ( in my local model shop anyway) and were more expensive. As I said in an earlier post that if you have extensive flying skills then you don't expect crashing to be the usual turn of events.So it will be natural to build with the knowledge that all of the care and hard work you have put in to a model will not be reduced to a pile of sticks during or just after take off.--Wullie.