I think most of you are missing the point here with the De Agostini spitfire,I am an experienced builder having built all if my planes over the last 30 years from scratch, and using plans, none of these artf's.
The point of the de-ag spit is you dont have a plan, only instructions to follow.Also all the parts are pre cut so building this plane is much more like doing a wooden jigsaw than building a model plane,it was designed like that to enable builders with no experience to end up with a half decent model