Wow this is late ( really sorry) but if your still active.
how crappy was Makerofthings, Even for a recast? I ran across his etsy a week or so ago and so did another guy who was looking for his first TK. I was told to give it a wide-birth over on whitearmor.net.
But I've never done a kit before and wanted to do a test-run before buying a good TK kit.
His kits atm are
$275 for an ANH
$300 something for rogue one.