RE: arf quality/ safety
Bought a SIG. Cap 232 last year. If I designed it myself, it would have ended up pretty much the same. Glue joints good. The only thing I did was to put a three in. wide glass strip around the centre section. Q 42 on batt. ign. The point is, I would have ended up with the same plane with more time and cost. Yes I do a lot of scratch building on planes you can't buy as an ARF or kit.