Guillow's Cessna 150 Laser Cut Model Kit, Small

Had a lot of fun building this plane, but it needs patience. It took me quite some time to build it as I never built model planes before. You can easily damage the parts and finished plane can get tilted or crooked as mine if you are not very careful (it still looks very nice though). I broke the fuselage cage in many different sections but those are easy to repair. Initially I wanted to fly it but now I don't as I spent way too much time on it.

Having a good time putting this 150 together. The balsa quality/thickness is just fine and the laser-cut parts just about fall off the sheet when you pick them up. Very nice improvement over the older style die-cuts. Only complaint is a lack of clear instructions for the rear window installation, m3? part#? Had to search the web for a better idea of what goes where, without the 'net you'd be hosed in this area. I'm maybe halfway thru and already have my next kit, Cessna Bird-Dog, en route. And busy planning for the next after that. Great way to spend cold fall/winter evenings. Anticipating a learning curve on the tissue covering...

It’s great that Guillows is later cutting some of their kits instead of the die and crush we are used to. That being said the supplied balsa for the stringers etc are still of poor quality. Once you have one or two glued on and go to start another just holding the model lightly will cause them to break. After this happening multiple times the kit was relegated to the trash bin except for the plans cowling and the wing spars. The price of these kits keep going up and the laser cutting is a plus but as long as many of the other parts are subpar I won’t be buying this brand again. I have been building models for over 50 years so this is not a newbie issue.

Really cool wood airplane model.

Everything looks good, my one complaint is… I bought it to fly. Would you be is so kind to send me the firewall. I think it’s great you stopped shipping them with your product because people may or may not have been using them. I purchased the kit assuming it would be good to go.

One of the better balsa kits ive built.

The laser die cut parts were very well done. No problem getting them out. Construction steps leave lots to be desired. Many small steps that need to be done before continuing on are left to find out by mistake....so study the plans first, pretend that you are building each part, look for those sneaky things that are not clearly marked, then actually build. I'll give it a 3 out of 5. I also fail to understand why I have to cut out the pilot halves, wheel pants to put them together....really! I have built many models and I was helping my granddaughter build this model as part of a school engineering project. It still is much better than the old days when we had to sand parts out of the poor die cutting.

It's a model. No issues.