RE: Are Guillow's kits any good for practice?
Ahh, there is something to getting back to rubber FF models once in a while. Makes you feel like a kid again.
I built my first stick kit when I was 10. Got it for my birthday. It was a Comet Curtiss Jenny rubber powered kit. Very ambitious for a 10 year old, but I managed to complete it and it flew a few times. In my books back then, a flight more than 10 feet and a landing not requiring major repairs qualified as a success.
Skip ahead about 30 years, I saw an old dusty Comet Curtiss Jenny kit in a hobby shop. I had to have it. I didn't build it and it slowly worked it's way to the back of the closet. But every once in a while I take it out to look at it. Millions of 1/16 sticks, horrible diecutting, balsa wood from the worst examples of the species and a small bundle of tissue paper. My wife can't understand why I wanted a rubberband airplane when I fly gas RC planes every weekend. One day, I'm gonna build it with my boy, and then she'll know.