ORIGINAL: mick15
I find myself in complete agreement with the thread starter, how you can say fitting an engine and installing a few servos is ''building'' a model airplane bewilders me.
In fact it is actually an insult to people who still do ''build'' models. I spent two and a half years building a Jerry Bates SeaFury and it's still not completely finished! I can assemble an ARF and fly it in less than a week.
jmo m
I agree with Mick some what (dont know about the insult though. Some people might take it pretty hard).
I do however totally disagree with the fiberglass fuselage side of things from NCIS. I have only built two wooden warbirds and am 99% done with my Yellow Spitfire and I consider this a build as much as the others. I have, as have others modified the fuselage and had to totally fit out the internals and most other bits and pieces in the kit. This needs to be done to a standard just as if you were to 'build' the long middle bit (fuselage) from sticks and there is some great scope to mess it up big time if you do not plan ahead or have some skills.
I personally believe threads like this should go into the 'Clubhouse'section of the forums so as to keep this forum about what we all love. Built, put together, what ever,,,WARBIRDS.
Brad