Took a really cheap square box fuselage 40 size Sukhoi kit and made it look like an real one. The only round parts of the kit was the Cowl, Canopy and the arched landing gear.
Shaved and cut down all the wood in the kit and soaked super thin superglue into the wood to make it much lighter and stronger than the original kit. Then built up and covered the fuselage with really thin balsa to make the square bits round. Finished it looked fantastic, ended up lighter than the kit, and flew fantastic too. Building was almost as fun as flying.
As with most all R/C, crashed and repaired it. But never got it to fly as well so sold it. The guy thought it flew great, but. He didn't fly aerobatics, and hadn't flown it before the crash.
Would also car little pilot busts to go into the planes with semi-cockpits that looked like crash dummies. Cause if you flew them enough they were going to eventually crash.
Really enjoyed R/C when we had a great local flying field and group. Discovered Autocross just as they were getting ready to close the field to put in a new highway.
Found out one of the guys in the club was a ham radio operator and his Dad and my Dad were CB radio friends back when you had to have a license to talk CB.