What Pennbritt is saying is quite simple been there done that, I had a Graupner Extra which I busted the fuselage big time, I contacted the distributor here for the price of a spare. At that time the plane new was £129 the spare fuselage was £80. I hunted around the net and noticed that the Seagull models Extra looked pretty much the same apart from the Pilot Patty Wagstaff had a sex change but who cares who was driving it. I was on holiday in Florida and I found a supplier for the fuselage who sent it to Florida for about $80 including postage , i took a chance on that but when it arrived it even had similar part numbers in the same location and all my Graupner parts swapped straight over. So too back up Pennbritt we don't get always get the extra quality we believe we are paying for, when I buy Graupner I don't expect Seagull models or BH for that matter. There is also the issue of glueing joints which are lacking or have insufficient glue, if we all took this crap back as NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE the importers would get the message, after all would you be happy to buy a new car and the dealer have you spotweld a few panels because the guys at the factory couldn't be bothered to do their job properly.