Hi Fellows: I was just reviewing Tower's website, and almost choked my tongue down. Just what are these mfg's thinking? I really do not want to cut my own balsa size wood needed in order to build a model. Purchased a lot of wood some time ago; so it will be only when starting a new plane that more wood will be needed. In view of the number of model kits I bought over the years before retiring, I will not need to purchase any of the kits on the market now. Spent a good amount of funds purchasing plans from the RCM Plans Service; so if a kit build is not interesting enough, I can fall back on building from plans. What really steams me is to see the price of a kit at or more than an ARF of the same model. This type of message is telling customers to not purchase a kit. This type of pricing is not doing any good for the original motivation of the hobby back in the yester years. People have control of their time, and to market that they have no time to build a model, but have time to drink beer is a big lie.

I am moving back into the 1/2A arena as I can fly this size model here on our own 2.6 acres after the FAA and HomeLand Security guts our fuel flying. It is ok with me for people to play with electric trains, but leave my fuel models alone.

Rich S.