it's okay..depend how you look at it.
Sometimes you have to come it hot on extras , mustangs.
Good lord I can eat my lunch and take a nap waiting for a senior kadet to land.lol

Plus it's not going to get toss around as much in windy days.

Yes it will cost you more, such as a duraplan..but it's actually cheaper after a crash.lol
and it looks nice and purdier after a crash too.
You might advance faster...flying is easy landings are hard.
I know people that can't past the landing stage becuase..well lack of practice of touch and go.
procedure truns, sliping or jsut abort the landing when it's not right
One bad touch on a wood model and it's not going to fly right. and it'll end up a brick anyways
after all the epoxy.lol 1-2 months of repairs or buying anohter model..then a posibility of not flying again

Don't worry about your first model being purdy
You'll be a much better R/C pilot flying a brick at lower speed when the controls are slugish.
Flying fast is much easier and that's the trouble most new pilot gets into.

I flew the heck out of my duraplan, crashed it into tree, fences..etc
it wasn't that ugly..at 2-3 mistakes high all i see is a T looking contraption.
it's wierd how arf don't have checkers or contras colors on the bottom of thier wing.