What are Robbe kits like? Very variable in my fairly limited experience. I helped a friend to sort out the inevitable problems with an S-130, and it wasn't easy, the hull & deck mouldings just didn't fit at all, though I'm told that later kits are a little better. Same friend then decided to take on an Odin, against my recommendation, though without the problem of joining two large floppy plastic mouldings, the Odin was much better, friend managed most of it on his own. Biggest problem for me is that German kits do always look a bit toy-like when they're finished, not a very convincing scale model really, but it does sail well. I'm just not a fan of vac-formed hulls, vac-formed mouldings generally in fact.