All interesting comments. I recently purchased a VMAR Hot Rod 40 to "retrain" myself after a couple of minor mishaps (having the wings on an Easy Fly 40 fall apart, and slightly damaging a Star-Duster .40). I figured this was an easy way to do so. The price was right, after all.

Anyway, this plane has beautiful covering (I may have been one who got the not-so-bad wood, etc.) however there were some modifications necessary to fly this bird for my taste. I redid the nose wheel steering since the pushrod they used was extremely rigid and hard on the servo, ALL of the clevises were replaced with snap clevises after I stripped the first screw. They come up a little short with the preinstalled pushrod for the rudder, so you may want to replace that. There were no instructions for the control horns, which were a little different than anything I'm used too.

Overall, though, this is a pretty decent kit. I may purchase another VMAR aircraft in the future, a T-34 or AT-6 Texan II. It's a lot easier for me to get the hours on something that is less than $150 rather than explain to wife how I destroyed a $250 plus aircraft. Yes, I realize you get what you pay for.