RE: 3D Hell Raiser
The Tensor has just as much going on when you get down to it. You should consider making your own from fan-fold. The whole plane is a couple dollars.
Because I was so excited about the Tensor this winter, we got 6 of them. No one else is really liking it. I still fly mine and have the other in the box yet. It ended up being as I expected. It flies too good. It also is not very good in much wind at all. Also do not have the CG too far back. What I have ended up doing is reducing the size of the side force generators. It feels better now, requiring some rudder input in the knife edge.
I may build the second one with the 2204 on 2 cells and light gear as an indoor only plane.
I am in the same boat as you though. I have had the Hellraiser since it came out and the kids had a couple accidents during transport and it was my first foamy and I did the tail surfaces wrong. I double beveled them and they are sloppy. It still flies great though, and hasn't really gotten any heavier. It just needed some mixing adjustments after repairs.
What we have been doing though is getting foam and cutting our own. We may even start airbrushing them. Trobuilt has come new foams, and we ordered the Monte to try out. Every site I go to has new planes every week. It's hard to keep up. We order one and then all cut one from the original to all try it out. I have several I just need powerplants for but have been waiting for the self winds. But I still think a second hellraiser built right will be hard to beat. It is expensive and fragile. What helped alot is a foam transport that holds the plane nose down. Stores in less space also.
Derek