I know what you mean. Scratch building isn't always as much fun as it's supposed to be. I scratch built the scaled-up 8ft span Kougar in the pic and after two failed maiden flights with the second crash landing tearing off my custom built shock absorbing landing gear, we discovered that in the process of taking the pictures it was bumped on the ground too hard and the fuel pick-up klunk was rammed forward which caused it to run out of fuel shortly after takeoff.