I just started working on my great planes venus tonight. I pulled everything out, fired up the iron and expected to have to work over the entire plane. Much to my amazement, the covering was absolutely perfect. It's a pretty complex covering job on the venus too.

I read a lot of posts where people state that ARFs are garbage and kit built planes are much better. Well maybe that's true with someone with 25 years of building experience. Looking at the venus arf and having built a carl goldberg tiger 2 kit, I can say without a doubt, the venus is built much better than I build. The covering looks 10 times better than mine does.

Now my great planes big stik arf wasn't done as nicely. It was probably on par with my building and covering skills. So that makes me wonder, did I just get lucky with my venus? Or is the venus is built on a better production line than the big stik?