thanks guys. I will probably wait till I have the guitar in one piece and go try the amps, my local music store has them all in stock.

As for upgrades, not that much really, with it being the first kit I got all the additional bits and pieces, shielding, glue sandpaper, DT, basically just everything DB recommends on the site, saves me going looking later, so by the time you do that your well over 300 with the LP1-SS kit. I also did chicken out and got DB do the neck and head stock shaping for me as I'm very "tool lite" currently. The big expense was the Babicz hardware which was a bit oF an impulse buy, ( i need to stop doing that). Still deciding on pickups.

On a positive note, the kit is in the mail. Woohoo.