I've got lots of comments on my ARF, currently my only flying plane.. It's a GP Extra 300s .40 sized, and IMHO looks pretty good. It's simple and clean and is put together with pride. I have recently joined a club and mostly fly during the weekdays after work. I'm a younger guy (27) and find mostly the older gentlmen at the field on weekdays, guys that have been around forever and spend more time at the field socializing than actual flying. I find that usually their first question to me is "Are you a member here" which they have every right to ask. The second question is "do you know what your doing" I assume because I have a "nice looking" plane that isn't covered in different patches of covering, with cracked windows, bent gear, and an engine from 1982. These guys crack me up, their the ones with beat up old planes, take off across the runway cause there is usually a crosswind, waiting for something to fall off their plane, and scare me when they come in for landing asking me if I know what I'm doing. Anyway to my point, yes you can be proud of an ARF, I'm pround of the way mine looks and the way I fly it.