I thought the same thing - it is very similar to the egg planes. The stickers might be the only drawback, but they are thin, adhere well, and for the most part, once they were covered with dullcote, look pretty good. In the end, this was just built for fun, and also to experiment a little bit with panel lines, since I'm mainly a car guy who only recently started venturing into military subjects. I have several Tamiya planes and I figured this would be a good practice run before I move on to things like that!