Don't know if this helps much but BV kits are pretty much complete from a hardware standpoint. There is no running to the hobby store 10,000 times to get all the nick nack stuff. Not to mention his manuals are pretty far beyond anyone elses. The support is available almost anywhere. There are many reps in just about everystate that will bend over backwards to help you. I know this is not the same for other companies. By far means am I a "purple kool aid" person, but in this hobby I have learned the hard way. You usually get what you pay for. I recently have bought a BVM AFS t-33. I have not started to build it yet but I have gone through the manual and all of the parts. Needless to say it is very complete and very straight forward from a manual standpoint.

Hope that helps you some. I know this subject has been beat to death.

Sean