It's one thing to just screw the pooch on your own, but to not even have a fighting chance. Bad bad bad, very bad. Shame on Guillows.
Oh well since everyone is more or less having the same issues, I will finish it up. I pulled the wing up off the board this morrning and man is it flimsy, but I guess is looks okay other than the spar being all jacked up.
I saw that it was jacked up before gluing it together, but I am tired of fixing every single cotton picking part on a Guillows kit.
Largely why I ended up with a banana fuselage was the left and right sides were not cut the same, and ended up with one that was a little shorter than the other. If you built it per the instructions it makes everything else off. It's not a banana anymore but the formers are not exactly square.
I have a bunch of laser cut kits, I just though I would cut my teeth on some cheap Guillows kits and hone up my building skills. Maybe I got more than I bargined for
Guillows does appear to be impoving, but there is still a lot to be desired. I got a new P-40 Warhawk and the parts were very cleanly cut, but there was still things out whack, needed modified or completely rebuilt from scratch. I did buy a kit, not a box of junk-figure it out on your own puzzle.
I have built one laser cut kit and it was wonderful. A little Peck Polymer Andreason, you couldn't ask for much more out of a kit. I also have most every laser cut kit Guillows makes, and a bunch of Dare Designs, and even a couple Dave Diels kits that are now laser cut as well. I even have a pile of Comet kits that to be perfectly honest I would rather just have good printed wood than horrible die cut parts.
It's no wonder Guillows has such a bad reputation. You really need to build quite few Guillows kits to kind of figure them out and then you can correct stuff before it gets to be a problem; however, how many fight and struggle through one and say man I am never doing that again. No wonder there is only like 25 people in the world in our hobby.