I've built several VMAR planes. First one was the L-19 Bird Dog that HobbyKing sold for a long time.
It went together easily and it flies very, very well. It's built VERY light so don't expect it to survive much abuse, but it flies exceptionally well on a little 250 watt bell motor and flies forever on a 3S 2200. It's one of the few planes I trust to get low and slow and it's right at home there. It has a fully-radiused fuselage which was surprising to me. No square, boxy fuselage here.
The 2nd I built was their 'new' 1300mm Cessna 182. It is hands down the most scale Cessna 182 in balsa in this size class. It builds light (but heavier than the foamies) and like the L-19 it's lightly-built so don't expect it to survive a lot of abuse. It's gorgeous, though. Again, fully-radiused fuselage, no square box. A very pretty model that looks great. I flew mine on an EFlite 1020kv Park 480. Needed 0 trim and the flaps were extremely effective. She's a touch-and-go princess. She quickly became my favorite plane.
Unfortunately she was lost to a radio failure on the turn into final. The US distributor has them marked out of stock. I'm desperately hoping and praying they come back in stock. I'm being 100% honest when I say I've never lost a plane that I was upset about for weeks after the crash.
Third is the Twin Otter. I'm actually putting this one together right now. It's the newer revision with the proper landing gear fairings and wire gear instead of the stamped metal main gear. So far everything's going together great. The airframe is extremely light and like the others it's properly radiused, even though the nose isn't exactly scale (especially for a Series 100...). But the wingroot fairings and the likes are very well done. I don't know how they've got it so light. I'm going to power this one with 2 Turnigy 1050kv Park 450s with APC 9x6E props and a 3S 3300. Should be plenty of power. Will post pictures of her soon.
4th is the Ugly Stick which I haven't started putting together yet.
Some things I've found in common on all 4 planes.
1) They're very lightly built. They're strong, but very light. Don't expect them to survive much hangar rash. Let alone a serious crash. The Cessna survived a few hard landings while I was learning to land her with no damage, but don't expect to have much left after a crash. I didn't.
2) The covering, while it looks great with the panel lines and everything printed, is thin, somewhat transparent and not easy to get wrinkles out of. I fiddled around with heat settings on my Hangar 9 iron with a hotsock and couldn't find 1 temp that worked. I had to fiddle with it but eventually was able to get wrinkles out and once they're out they stay out.
3) The stock hardware sucks. Don't plan on keeping wheels or control horns. Pushrods will likely need some lubrication because they're flexi-rod style and tend to be pretty tight. Clevices are neat. They're anodized metal and work really well. Wheel collars are blue anodized and work really well but don't overtighten them. They will strip out. Same for the blue-anodized EZ connectors. They work really well but are easy to overtighten and dig the threads out.
4) Every single one of them has had some warping on the h-stab. The Cessna had a pretty badly warped h-stab that I was able to mostly correct with heat. The Twotter has a warped rudder and a warped aileron that I should be able to straighten with heat.
Overall, I've been very happy with VMAR models. Because I go into the projects expecting $70.00 ARFs, not $170,00 EFlite ARFs. At the same time, they're lighter than EFlite ARFs. The Cessna 182 built WAY lighter than my EFlite Cub 450. It's nowhere near as solidly built, but it did fly SO much better.
Just putting this out there for anyone that's curious about the products as they stand today as opposed to many years ago!