My 2 cents worth of tips since you went public.

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Perhaps you should just get your models and advance payment back and go elsewhere to get your builds done. BIG TIP for NEXT TIME: Also it works best if the builder buys the kit package, that way you, the consumer, can walk away clean if you to not approve of the end finish results.

I have purchased a few of Bob's modified firing switch Futaba rc radios and gave up trying reach him this year. As to our history, Bob and I got off to a angry, rocky start, as he was taking undeserved shots at me and my modelling. I gave him a what for, for that, but all that is in the distant past. Promotion wise Bob can be kinda full of BS, like claiming he assembled and painted a Tamiya IR Panther G overnight with his daughter. A misleading communications tactic designed to attract new rc tankers to the AAF and his rc tank club; so he explained to me, but that was several years ago.

As to your deadlines, Bob just may have over promised and under delivered on your project deadline (unrealistic deadlines to get your project), but he has a history of doing the right thing and ain't a true dishonest guy.

Concerning build deadlines for commission work, you probably could go to court, but I will tell you, in the commissioned model building world, rc tank builds can take a year or more if the modeler has a day job and insists on doing things correctly. A commissioned, collaboration model project with my favorite Maryland based modeller can run as long as 24 months and has run longer. Most of my Tamiya rc tank kit builds below took at least nine months to complete and setup. Though, the complex custom collaboration models took up to two years working on them. Of course I work on these fun hobby projects off and on. And no I am not looking for more projects, I'm booked through 2017.

Take care and either be patient and understanding or get the kits back and go elsewhere. Importantly keep it all FUN and civil, or why play?

John