Richard, I haven't gotten around to building the Vanguard yet, but my impressions of the kit is the design looks fairly good, the print quality is poor. As one of my mentors once told me, it makes a good practice build. I would recommend scanning the kit, cleaning up the scans as well as you are able to in an image processing program, and then print it out on good quality cardstock. One thing I'm finding out is that the Maly kits can produce some pretty respectable models if you have enough digital graphics skill (and patience) to redraw them. However, because Maly kits are generally considered to be "crude" because of the poor paper and printing quality, they are usually dirt cheap on Ebay, and a good way to develop building skills before trying one of the expensive Helinski or GPM kits.