I know what you mean re:- quality. unlike you one job I detest is covering, so If I have to strip covering to ensure a plane is sound, then I would rather build the plane from a kit or scratch build it. I am quite happy to pay for quality, but the last expensive kit I bought had more problems than ever. It was a total strip down and reinforce and reglue, even the wings had the webs with the grain goin the wrong way and a number of the were missing, not good in a 72inch katana huh? I ended up putting 60$ worth carbon fibre in the wings to help stiffen them up and strengthen them. ther undercarriage mounting blocks I could pull of using just my fingers, just a fer drops hot melt holding them in. This kit was the most expensive of the size range I was looking for and I might just as well have bought the cheapest piece of &&*^*, the result would have been the same. [:@][&:][:'(]