I had one of Karls shells ages ago ... and it's still just a shell, all be it a different colour ( one day it will be finished
).
My plan at the time was to build up gradually, but have now decided that buying a fairly decent C5 , hopefully with a damaged body, is the way to go, as trying to get all the bits to build from scratch would be very time consuming, and probably quite costly.
I've still not got round to getting that ( near ) complete C5 - keep spending my money on other bits
- but one day i will