I bought the Lanier Giles in the last part of December and have already got the fuse finished and in the process of sheeting the wings, Mark Poole has a review that is very helpful on this website, http://webpages.charter.net/rcfu/KitReviews/ , I have built several different brands of kits and this one is ok, I went ahead and used the plastic cowl and wheelpants and it just takes a little patience to put together, I would suggest fiberglassing stress points on the cowl and pants comes out to about the same weight, the wood quality is better I think than previous lanier kits, I really like the change to built up turtledeck instead of abs. On the engine side I would recomment using a zdz 80 or simular light engine, I was going to use a Brison 5.8 which is listed for sale right now on rcuniverse but I think I want a zdz 80 instead because the brison is too big for this plane, thanks!