mclina: I must admit that I've seen some real nice, very nice, SPAD's out there. I'm just not that talented a builder to make something that looks, and may fly.. ??

as good as some say they do. Tongue-in-cheek, I hope you realize. Someone's gotta like 'em, and somebody's gotta not like 'em. I happen to fall in the latter category.
We all have choices, and the theme of this thread is pretty much for us to "speak our mind" without being degrading. Yep, I don't like them, but it's not from a distant view, but from personal experience. I built the Debonaire and one other, I forgot what it was, that got almost done when I realized that I made some poor choices in the build and it made it to the scrap pile.
I'll stick with ARF's and some kits. I'm an engineer, but I ain't that kind of an engineer..

I'll let those in the know do their thing and do what I enjoy.
Nice pile, by the way

Sort of looks like my back room, which would probably improve if I tossed in a hand-grenade... [X(]
CGr.