I agree with everything except its only money. I've had arf's until this coming xmas (i hope), when I get a scale .60 p51 kit. If I crash that, its gonna be more than money, because once you spend a winter building something and destroy it, you don't just say "o well its only money." Once you put in many many hours you grow attached to the thing just out of the shear time you've put into it. I would not want to just buy the kit over again and build for another 3 months. It would be to boring to do it over again and just plain frustrating. That is the nice appealing thing about ARF's, if you crash, get another.

Alex