ORIGINAL: MANFRED
Balsabandit suffers from a common misconception that building from a kit puts him or her on a different, somehow better plane then those who assemble ARFs. You do what your time and skills allow to arrive at your own personal level of enjoyment in this hobby. I wish these guys would climb off their high horse, especially when they are merely assembling a kit made and designed by somebody else. If you truly want to impress, draw your own plans, cut your own balsa and COMPLETELY build a scale classic from scratch. Of course at this point you are still just copying some else's design. Just relax and enjoy and let people do their own thing no matter what the level of prefabrication might be. We should all be thankful there are so many of us with common interests.
Manfred, You are absolutely correct in your assessment. But I in fact, do draw my own plans, cut my own wood and build and fly my designs (game, set and match) aah, you are right, I wuz just feelin my wheaties, but i do my own designs, and yes, it gives me much personal satisfaction. I finally did try an ARF, and when I finish doing the assembly work, it will be for sale.