Steve Campbell
Posts: 4126
Joined: 12/8/2001 From: Zachary,
LA, USA Status: offline
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I built the 60, and later the 40 MK II. Yup, you needed to buy stock in the 3M company (sandpaper!) for these puppies. Ya know, this has got to reflect a serious down-turn in kit sales. Most GP kits are very builder-friendly, and the Sportsters have been popular for as long as I've been in the hobby (since 1986). The Empire isn't going to discontinue a product that is selling well. So, that begs the question. Is this indicative of a shift in interest toward other types of kits? Or a general lessening of kit sales as a whole, and this is one that was put on the block due to its age? I know that balsa is getting more difficult to come by, as the the Asian baby-factory ARF builders scarf up everything they can. Looks like I'll be paying eBay scalper prices for kits in my declining years... If I began stockpiling them, Fate would drop me dead before I got to build any of them.
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