Everyone ease up on scorpion, he meant well.

Jack, even I thought your post came off a teeny tiny on the pretentious side....and I am the most easy going person on the BB...just ask Injun Ear......ROTFLMAO! I get your point. Showing up with a kit that took 7 months of work that has an installation that is as neat as a pin and looks like ARF wished it looked is an unbelievable feeling (and I almost always never use THAT "f" word).

Seriously, the SE was (note the "was") my second kit, I don't remember if it had a gap...but I'm not sure I would have cared. The wing wasn't going anywhere and I had untold minutes (!) of fun with that airplane.

Now, on my most recently completed AW 29% Edge 540, I had a gap between the root and fuse........horrors! I made a sanding jig to make the fuse and root mate PERFECTLY ( I even had to add another piece of sheeting to the root I sanded so much off). I LOVE that plane, I love it even more when people ask me if it is an ARF.

I think in Ken's example (correct me if I speak for you wrongly), as long as its airworthy, he's gonna chalk the gap up as something to make sure is correct on the next kit and fly the piss out of it. As you keep building that list gets longer but becomes more automatic. Soon, some kind of magic takes over and when you look at your creations....you start to turn your head different ways as you look at it just to see how good it looks at different angles. Its a shame the ARF "assemblers" probably won't have the same pleasure....maybe they do, never assembled one.

Eventually, Ken will get to Jack's plane (no pun intended) of existance and the hobby will be better for it. Touching, huh? It's all good fellas. Have a great time.

Bob