I am new to R/C, and I must confess that my first trainer is an LT-40 ARF. BUT, I have my next plane on the board right now, and am almost finished with the bottom wing. It is an older kit from Midwest, called the "Beer Cat". It is a sport biplane modeled after a plane that was a Reno racer. Calls for a .50 engine. I bought this kit several years ago, and just never had the time to start it. I bought the LT-40 as an ARF becasue I wanted to get in the air quick and start learning so I would have some flight skills developed before Spring rolls around. My problem is that most of the aircraft that I like and want to get only come in an ARF kit. Take the GP 1/3 scale Pitts, for example. It is the ONLY decent sized Pitts kit out there that I can find that doesnt cost $1500 like some of the large scale aerobatic planes do, and it is ONLY available in an ARF. I really like the 33% and 42% Weeks Solution bipes that simodels is offering plans and short kits for, but that is a bit above my level of expertise, and probably will be for a while. I have built model airplanes of some type ever since I was very young, so building has always been a bit of a passion for me. It is just too bad that the choices are getting so limited on what is available to actually BUILD.