ORIGINAL: Ascension
ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
ORIGINAL: Ascension
For those that like the building aspect, do you prefer having to lay down blueprints, cut pieces, and measure lengths or are the kits that are pre-cut and easy to assembly preferrable? I realize they may take away some of the ''challenge'' and so the hardcore builders probably would rather do most of that work themselves. There are some kits out there that are like puzzles that you just need to assemble - no cutting. I think it's cool - but it does take away from the ''this is my own plane'' factor knowing everyone else with that kit had the same pieces and just assembled them.
So far I haven't seen a kit with everything pre Cut?? I have built laser cut and die cut but othere then being cleaner needed less snding I don't see a lot of differece between them.
Gray Beard,
I wastalking about the laser-cut kits with "interlocking" pieces. It just requires putting them together like a puzzle and applying some glue. Not as mundane as assembling an ARF but not as creative and open-ended as cutting out kit-parts yourself.<br type="_moz" />
Wow, you make it sound so easy.
I have built several kits, laser cut, die cut, and it is a lot more complicated than putting together a puzzle. I doubt you would ever have to sand a puzzle to contour edges or make sure it balances within 1/4 of an inch on center of gravity. Most kits need some modifications along the way that only a "modeler" would understand.
Obviously scratch building is the ultimate but don't sell short a person who builds from kits.
The Pamster
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