Ive never bought anything from ares but this one seems pretty solid internally and externally, from what ive seen. Maybe i wait for short handgaurd. Ive also thought of maybe doing a "honeybadger like" build.
The reason why i like the honeybadger is becuz im a fan of the mp5sd and custom m4 builds. I was checking out this thread
http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=153698 some of them did some pretty cool builds.