ORIGINAL: Mike Wiz
In this economic environment I think we would find more people willing to build if they had the skills to do it. If there were a few good videos for building a precision airframe out there I'd tackle one myself. Unfortunately, building Sig 4Star 40 kits and the like, hasn't really taught me the skills needed to properly build something like a pattern plane.
Actually it has, just not quickly. It doesn't take anything more than basic building skills to build an all-wood/foam airplane like Jeff's. There are a couple good books out there I think on 'building a pattern airplane' and plenty of information in Jeff's thread on the Lightning. I wish I could remember the name of the book.