A list of all my kites:

Name	Brand	Type	Line (Kg)	Rating
Nano	Spitfire	Delta, ultra small, light wind	5	7.0
Pi	HQ	Delta, small, light wind	13	8.5
Breeze	HQ	Delta, middle, light wind	30	8.5
SAE	Self-build	Delta, small, normal to strong wind	50	7.0
SAE	Self-build	Delta, small, normal to strong wind	50	7.0
Performer	HQ	Delta, middle, normal wind	40	7.0
Quadfun	Spitfire	Hybrid, small, normal to strong wind	50	7.5
Delta Hawk	HQ	Delta, middle, normal to strong wind	75	8.5
High speed	Wolken sturmer	Delta, middle, normal to strong wind, very unstable	75	4.0
Gizmo 2	Self-build	Delta, large, light to normal wind	40	8.5
Dark Wing	Self-build	Delta, large, normal to strong wind	120	8.0
Bean 1.0	Self-build	Hybrid, middle, normal to strong wind	120/80	8.0
Symphony	HQ	Matras, small, light to strong wind	75	8.0
Thunderbird 200	Rhombus	Matras, middle, normal to strong wind	100	6.0
NPW 175*	Self-build	Single skin, large, light to strong wind	75-150	??
NPW 200*	HQ	Single skin, large, light to strong wind	100-170	7.5

* Sandra's/Chido's Kites

Nano

PI

Breeze

SAE

This is the first kite I designed entirely myself. The design objectives were:
high speed, no pull & high agility. It achieved all these criteria. To achieve it I designed the kite with a large angle between the two legs (so it's more broad than normal kites). In addition the "depth" of the kite is very low...(short whiskers). All these changes make the kite very fast & agile. Disadvantages are that it needs a lot of wind...

It's small (only about 1 m wide). I've made two variants of them... 1 in black and silver and 1 in black and red (I like black). The spars are Excel RCF 4 mm (hollow). I'm thinking of making a kite twice as big (but with the same features).
PS SAE stands for "simple and easy". It's rather easy to manufacture (and very costeffective...)

Performer

Quadfun

Delta Hawk

Ok! It starts getting serious. This is my favorite kite (also my first one)! It's got nothing to do with flying nice nifty loops or what ever. This one is just two things: Fast & powerful!
Allthough it's a small kite it tends to pull you off you're feet. This is THE kite for the serious beginner (who has flown already some super-market kites). The mix between fun kiting and a little bit of powerkiting is very addictive!
It's manufacturer is HQ which has the best value for money! The kite has only one disadvantage. After crashes the spars (EXCEL RCF 6mm, hollow carbon) tend to loossen from their holders. If the kite goes up again, the spars tend to go trough the sail....

High speed

This kite is from Wolkensturmer. I personnaly dislike this kite. It's VEEEEEERRRRRY nervous. From the 10 times I've flown it, 9 times the spars broke before I got it in the air. The few times I got it unharmed in the air, I found it no fun to fly. It falls out of the sky whenever you want to make it turn.

Supposedly this all got to do with the basic design objective: FLYING FAST. To be honest, I didn't think it was that fast. Basicly I think it is a waste of you're money...(this kite is not cheap!)
I've bought another kite from wolkensturmer, the stardust indoor. This kite also flew pretty lousy...
Wolkensturmer is not my kind of brand!

Gizmo 2

This is the first kite I made using the handboek. It's a large lightweight trick kite. I'm very fond of this kite (I think it's the most beautiful kite I've build yet!). I'm still in the starting phase with regards to doing tricks (gotta have some patience...). One (small) disadvantage of this kite is that it's rahter fragile. I've broken a spar already 2 times...
But hey, what do you want when you build something large and lightweight!!! Too conclude: this one is definitly worth building! Just don't start with it...

Dark Wing

This is a great kite! It's a scaled up version (x1.5) of the Delta Hawk. It was the first kite I build. It flies great. It's got lot's of pull, and is easier to fly than the Delta Hawk (due to it's size it's slower and more gracefully).
The only disadvantage is that it's a rather noisy kite. I (partially) solved this by applying a "tension cord" in the trailing edge...
I think this kite (it was my first one!!!) rather succeeded very well! I'm still proud of it. The fun thing of the animal is that it also flies surprisingly well in low (or no) winds, due to it's size.

Symphony

This kite is fun! From all my kites this one has the biggest windrange. I've flown it from 1bft up to 7.5 bft. As it is a matras instead of a Delta it's difficult to wreck it. In my opinion a good beginners matras allthough a lot of my friends have complained on it's tendency to whirl up...
It's biggest advantage is that it's small (only a very small package when wrapped) and due to it's wide windrange basicly enables you to kite everywhere (as long as you got the space..)! Maybe the ideal kite to take on holiday's.....

THUNDERBIRD 200

Kite made by Rhombus (Thanks Wim ten Have!). You can buy it here. I traded my stardust indoor for this kite. The kite is pretty good fun. It's no match to the symphony but it does pull a lot. The big disadvantage is it's tendency to collapse...
But hey, never look a traded horse between it's shoes....

NPW 175/200

This one is a beast! The first time I tried it had my arms scratched open...
The NPW (originally a NASA brake parachute for re-entry of space going vehicles...) is strong, indestructible and rather slow. The big disadvantage (apart from it's slowness) is that there is no angle in which the kite doesn't pull anymore. It keeps trying to rip your arms out.
Sandra's want to start with the mountain board with this kite...
The NPW 200 is from HQ. (allthough cheaper versions of other manufacturers seem to be as good...)
Just recently I've made a 175 variant (for Chido's birthday). It's a lot of work (especially the bridles...) but it turned out allright!