@Oberst - "...not everyone has the talent and or skill to build kits."

And thats where I'm at. Sometimes you just have to know when to say when. I really like the alure of building primarily because you can, if successful, have planes that you're just not going to see as an ARF. For me attempting to build was not so much a time, money or space thing, but more geared toward particular types of scale aircraft. But alas, 2 build seasons and about 4 kits later, I'm finding I just don't have the talent or skillset. I don't have the knowledge/experience to look at a set of plans and correctly see several steps ahead to prevent any snowballing. Even well designed simple kits I find confounding. "Mount the servos at this time"... then, many steps later.. "Mount the servos at this time".. geez, which is it! Or.. crap, should have installed this before I completed that, even though it says to do it this way.. the plans don't match the size of the pieces.. so how is that accounted for? Stay square on this end and just keep building? And so forth.. Don't get me wrong, not knocking building, have a LOT of respect for folks that can do it, but I've found that for me, in my 50's at that, without proper skills and no local to impart such skills, its too expensive to continue with. Can't keep buying kits thinking someday the light bulb will come on, will be walking with a cane by then.

RC for me is almost an addiction. I'd have more planes than sense if the wallet was permitting. So I'm mentally reshaping my relationship with RC, and need to learn to be content with 2-3 nice 1/5-1/3rd scale bashed ARFs I enjoy flying, maybe swap'em out with a new one every couple years vs. every couple months.. and count my blessings that I'm even able to participate in such a cool hobby.