You cannot find large scale civilian aircraft models in plastic kit format. Only the balsa kit mfgs offer them and they are all very good scale representations - or can be - if they are built as display models especially. The Aeronca Champ '85 works out to a 1/17.5 scale (large scale for a display model) and is a perfect example. The materials provided, plans, instructions, balsa wood, and plastic components are great for building a rubber band flier right out of the box. I use most of the supplied materials but then augment or scratch-build a few things...But no matter what you want to do with this kit - you can do it. The kit is well engineered and designed as are all of the Guillow kits I have built. I can recommend them all. I would only suggest that with the Aeronca you probably want to have one or two previous balsa builds under your belt - rather than have this be your first foray. The Cessna 150 would probably be the best of this series to begin with.