I scratch built a few planes and have built many, many kits. I continue to build kits. I also have several kits that are still in the box, which I will eventually build. To me, the kits are priceless. I wouldn't sell them .... Especially with the mentality of most people who want everything at half price. Just not worth selling them. When built, they are the finest, most sturdy and structurally sound planes in the air. Inside and out.

I enjoy building them almost as much as I enjoy flying them.

I do ARF's too. But I always strip off the covering and beef-up the structure. Especially the landing gear mounting rails. By the time I'm done re-working an ARF, it's about equal in strength and durability as a kit ... and nearly the same amount of building time!

It would be nice to see many of the kits come back into production.

You BUILD kits ... you DO ARF's.