Figured I may as well share my build experience etc with you guys...

I ordered a Sepecat Jaguar kit from Didier at http://christen.diffusion.online.fr/jaguar.htm as soon as the kit was announced, and pid my deposit to secure the first kit produced.

Didier indicated that the first kit would be available sometime in May this year. Based on the usual significant difference between promissed delivery and actual delivery, I figured the kit might be available by the end of the year, so it was a pleasant surprise to be notified by Didier in April that my kit would ship within a couple of weeks. Sure enough, a couple of weeks later he sent me two tracking numbers.... and that 's where some of the problems started. The "Colliposte" website is completely in French, so I had to enlist the help of a French-speaking co-worker to figure out what was going on. One of the tracking #s showed the parcel "in progress" with no useful info ; the second tracking # showed a "no such parcel" error. I asked Didier to double-check the #s, but he said they were correct, so that's when I first started feeling a tad uneasy.

Two weeks later, the first parcel arrived - this contained the wings. Unfortnately the packing of the kit was inadequate - a little brown paper wrapped around the wings, then the wings were simply dropped into a big cardboard box full of polystyrene "peanuts" / shredded paper etc. Not much good, as the heavy wings predictably gravitated to the bottom of the box during transit, pushing the looe packing aside. The result was that both wings had the TE of the wingtip broken off, as well as the opposing corner of the wing centre-section, as shown in the pics below.

I notified Didier of this, and suggested that a couple of layers of bubble-wrap be placed around the whole wing, or at a minimum, around the corners that the wing would rest on in transit. His response indicated that he thought his packing was adequate and that customs must have damaged the wings during some or other en-route inspection. Oh well - at least I tried to get an improvement made for the next customer, even if it may not have had any effect.