RE: My first kit!
I've been 70-80% finished with my Uproar 60 for a few months. It's covered, nothing like the job you did, and needs all of the finishing touches: Attach tail feathers, install control surfaces, landing gear, engine, and radio. You would probably say I have it built to about the stage an ARF is when you open the box.
I've had too many distractions: House burglarized in October, job, holidays, job. The job should calm down in a few weeks; and I'll feel like working on the plane again. Right now my brain is fried and I feel I'd mess up if I worked on it.