Originally Posted by
Granpooba
Well everybody says, " Never say Never ". But even though I belong to the Balsa USA Brotherhood and am building this Eindecker 90, I really feel that this is my last Balsa USA / KIT build.
Really have gotten tired of an instruction booklet that to me is basically A** Backwards. Somebody at Balsa USA should sit down and rewrite the whole manual. The parts and even the quality of wood supplied also leave a lot to be desired. Did not realize that a builder would have to take stock wood supplied and make needed parts out of them as they could not even supply wood for the leading edges and other parts of the tail feathers.
Laser cut parts is pretty much the norm today with any model airplane. Balsa USA should also take a hint instead of supplying sheet parts that are die cut and really need quite a bit of easy handling when pushing the parts out.
Guess I could keep rattling on, but what good would that do either you folks or myself. I know that eventually I will have a nice looking and good flying Eindecker. But only because of my many, many, MANY years as a builder.
After last evening , I think that I will keep rattling on. You ask what happened last evening
Well, I removed the parts for the vertical stab from their sheets. You say, nothing wrong with that as that is what you are supposed to do !
Well, I had to cut them out of the sheets with an Exacto knife. The same way that I had to do about 64 years ago when I was building Guillows and Comet kits.
Unless I have come across ONE bad kit, I can not see how people claim that Balsa USA puts out a quality kit.
