The quality of some of todays ARF's is excellent. While I don't mind doing a kit build on occasion, the covering and finish on some of the ARF's is much better than I could do myself. I just finished building a 3Seabees Fokker DVII where I made major modifications to install a RCV 120SP engine (radial mount) where it was originally designed to use a Saito 120 in a beam mount. I used the RCV because I didn't want to cut out the front cylinders of my dummy engine to allow the Saito cylinder to poke thru. The RCV is also a gear reduced drive which allows me to use a prop that is almost scale size. I am very impressed in the quality of the 3Seabees models.