I totally understand your situation, I started building from kits again in January, it had been close to 9 years since I've done that, I assembled a few ARF like my Escapade 30cc but that's just it, I also had to get the bench ready and had to get some tools to start the kit builds.
This is my other build happening slowly but its on the way after stalling for about 5 years, I'm dismantling this ARF and drawing the parts, I've sent that to a laser cut place in Texas from there I will get a laser cut kit to build and to find mistakes, long process, an ARF kit doesn't build like a builder's kit, totally different.
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