Stew, I'm with you on the Poppet, I too have built four of them over the years. This is the most recent....... The pic was taken just after it was finished but sadly it doesn't look quite so pretty now...... It is freeflight and went awol at Old Warden in 2016. I searched for two hours but couldn't find it so I waited for the leaves to fall and then went back to look for it a couple of months later. In the meantime there had been three frosts and two horrendous storms so by the time I went back in November I was expecting to find a pile of pulp..... but I wanted the engine back! We found it in a matter of minutes and to my utter amazement it was undamaged bar one small tear in the tissue! The coloured tissue had faded badly but after drying out, it would fly again....... So, I took it to the Chuck 'n Duck at the Nats last year and it was static ON THE GROUND when another model crashed into it and smashed the wing..... 'End of chuck and Duck for another year. I have repaired it but I fear it is not the model it used to be so another is planned, though I think I will put radio in the next one!
As for your Vic Smeed "To Build" list, the Debutante is a real classic, but save yourself the time and trouble and forget the Chatterbox...... Everyone is allowed one mistake and that was Vic's!
Paul