No wonder we have no time to build. We are all on here complaining about stuff that's never going to change and beating the same dead horse over and over until you don't know it was a horse. How many kit manufacturers are still left? 5 maybe 7? And who is the distributor for almost all the items the hobby shop stocks(maybe)? Yep the Big H and the Big T Most of the guys that support this hobby at all are in their 20's to 30's, and they want instant satisfaction NOW! They are the ones at all the events and getting sponserships from manufacturers. They want out of the box performence, and buy it today fly it tomorrow action. Life moves on gentlemen, just like we drive cars now instead of horses and malls replaced downtown shopping. Those who adjust and niche themselves survive and those that don't go under. It's just the way it is. I got back into this hobby because of electrics and arfs and if they were not available then I would have never gotten back in. We NEEDall those young people buying arfs to keep this hobby alive or else the manufacturers that are left will go the way of the Dodo bird. So instead of us wasting our time B....ching and moaning about the old dayshow about we teach a new generation why we call it modeling. Look what that club did in MA a few months ago, getting a bunch of guys to build the same scratch build and have a ball doing it. To borrow a song lyric " the good old days were'nt always as good, and tomorrows not as bad as it seems" Oh by the way I'm over 50 and Ibuild kits, rebuild crashes, and generally enjoy my arfs.