I received my GP Wagstaff Extra 300 from Chief Aircraft early last week. After opening the box, I was a bit disappointed with what I had. The elevator and center section were completely missing from the box. The cowl was chipped in several places because of poor packaging/boxing with the hardware and wheel pants. Also, the canopy is painted the wrong shade of red; kind of a maroon-red monokote color that is on my UCanDo3D - not the true bright red.

The wing tubes did not fit as I suspected. I used the technique outlined from Great Planes to fix it. I had to enlarge both wing tubes and fuselage tube openings with sandpaper. It took about 20 minutes.

The covering job on the wings looks pretty good. The fuselage is a different story. Where the monokote was trimmed, the trim lines are quite jagged and are easy to see on the white monokote on the under side of the fuselage and the red monokote on the fuselage top forward of the canopy. Also, the vertical stabilizer covering looks terrible. It looks like there was monokote placed over monokote which bubbled terribly. Basically the airfoil shape of the rudder near the fuselage has probably 30 bubbles and looks like the monokote iron's temperature was set at too high as it is slightly discolored.

I called Great Planes this morning and told them everything listed above. They are going to send me a new canopy and the elevator assembly. They would not do anything about the cowling or covering quality. Why? It is terrible and not just my impression. I guess I am stuck with a cowl that needs to be repainted and will have to recover some of the fuselage myself. I am VERY disappointed here and will think twice before purchasing another Great Planes model. I have previously owned several and currently fly a UCanDo3D and an Extra 300S .40 ARF. The quality on both these was FAR superior compared to my GP Wagstaff Extra 300. Anyone else have problems or concerns?