My personal experience with Lanier wood kits has been very good. Good wood, good to excellent parts fit, instant replacement for a missing or damaged part. Their instructions have been skimpy in the past but are showing strong improvement in later kits and later production runs of long time kits.

I have built the 1/4 scale Laser 200, several Stingers, Extra 3.35 and the small Giles 202. All built well with minimal issues equal too or better than other kits I have built.

As far as quality diminishing in the Goldberg kit line because Lanier now owns it, I will disagree. The two original Goldberg kits I built (Extra 300 and Ultimate Bipe) were riddled with poor wood, crushed die cutting (the Ultimate was in the first kit run), marginal parts fit and flimsy plastic parts.

Never had a bad experience when calling Lanier, always a helpful conversation and prompt service.

Have a number of their wood/foam kits in the rafters and pick them up at swap meets when ever I can. They build and fly well. A little heavier...yes. Fragile like a lot of other kits and arf's...no!