Hi Kevin...

I've been a modeler... gee it's 52 years now, and I understand half finished kits. Thank goodness a partially completed kit is smaller than a built one. Otherwise we'd all have to find bigger homes.

In designing a new kit, I know what I intended, but it's really up to the builders to decide if I've met my objectives. Over the years, kits have taken me forever to build. It always seemed like the more you knew, the longer it took. The reason being that if the kit simply says, "install the tailwheel" you sit there thinking about the 14 different ways you could do it trying to figure out which one is best.

In designing our kits, I try to not leave any decisions up to the builder. Of course everyone is free to change whatever they want, but I at least try to give the builder a good sound solution to every problem and decision. This moves things along.

The massive instruction manuals that I'm always taking ribbing for, also move things along. By breaking the jobs down into small steps, there's always something you can do even if you only have 15 minutes to work on the kit. That way things move along. Like everyone else, if I feel like the next step is huge, it takes real effort to get started. It's that way during the designing of the kit. The Eindecker was a 12 month project and there were a lot of points where it seemed overwhelming. The solution was always to just sit down and do something, anything, no matter how small. That way you keep chipping away at the problem and eventually, you solve it.

Sorry for being so long winded,

Larry