ORIGINAL: woops
Instructions are for sissies.
It helps to have pics though.
No pics, no nothin' with those aerotech kits, just a couple of photocopied pages of rudimentary instructions and some basic plans that show enough to do the plane. Control runs and stuff are not shown, the expectation here is that you have at least a few models under your belt and that you can figure out where you want your servos and such. I don't have a problem with that.
All my foam parts were neatly sheeted and fit well and made construction VERY fast. The plastic parts fit fine, glass would be better, but it would cost a heck of a lot more. And the end result is reasonably light. My six channel 72" 110 came out at NINE pounds with two saito 56s, retracts, flaps, the whole hog, and flew like a dream.
Hattend...I had the Mossie kit, I sold it. Same thing as the 110, but only one rudder, riskier if you lose an engine. Now that GSP has one totally built and painted for $300, it kind of makes building the Aerotech kit the long way around. Think about that. You could really doll up the GSP one if you wanted, and it's all fiberglass, already built...
The Lancaster is awesome. I want one. I know of several guys in the UK who built it, it flies great. Saito 30s would be my call.
Is it the ultimate kit ever offered? Nope. But it was very reasonable, about $400, when they were new, and it's large, and it's easy to build, and it's a Lancaster. How much you want to detail it out, that's up to you. But a decent builder could have it "framed out" and sitting up on the gear in two weeks of evenings....a rib and spar job of the same plane would be MONTHS.
You just need to adjust yourself to some different techniques, namely the fuselage foam turtledecks.