I haven't seen enough addons yet to form a view about the kind of impact different classes of plane should have, but my impression is that the Glasair makes a slightly greater hit than the analog panel Cessna, but far less than the G1000 panel planes. The FSX installation has three liveries, including a Red Bull paint and thanks to ACP you will be able to install more as they become available. On the whole, I thought the developers got the look of the plane right and if you look inside the gear bays you can see the fasteners and all the other paraphenalia that goes with a homebuilt. In FSX, what you see depends very much on the capabilities of your video card, but I didn't find anything to complain about, beyond a small amount of bleed-through in places on the underside the fuselage. The visual model is OK and captures the Glasair's slab-sided lines, albeit at the expense of some extra angles - take a look at the canopy frame at top left of the screenshot above.
Much of the work needs two people to get it done properly and in the average week, even dedicated homebuilders struggle to get more than ten hours of actual work done - a friend of mine once said that the cost of building a kit plane should more properly be measured in relationships than in time or money. Strange though it might seem, you can get more by paying less, the kicker being that it takes hundreds of hours to build a kit plane, build times being more truly measured in years than months. The other reason for buying a kit sounds whacky, but many designs offer much better performance than the spam can end of the conventional GA market will ever be able to offer and a lot of pilots want a slice of that, with the result that the number of kit builds appears to be going up logarithmically.
So you can't win, but at least if you build a kit, you get the plane you want, at a price that is affordable as long as you look at it slitty-eyed and don't think about what else the money might get you ('affordable' being a relative term in aviation).
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