ORIGINAL: Stickbuilder
ORIGINAL: 50%plane
If the rest of the modeling world was as smart as you, or had as much time, I would say that you had a good point.
Christopher,
You know that I work a minimum of 70 hours per week, and I have never claimed to be as smart as you ar anyone else. Flaming me does not show me how much a man you are, just how big a smart ass you have become. Go look in the mirror, and then tell me that what I said about not building is true or not.
Bill, AMA 4720
Here's your post that I quoted:
Why don't ARFer's Build kits? This is not likely to win me many friends, but I have to agree with what was said in another thread. It's really simple. The answer is: Laziness. Make whatever excuse you want, it's still the same. If ARF's were not offered, what would you fly? If you won't build, don't say you don't have the time. In the amount of time that you spend defending your choice in one post on there, you could have glued 3 or 4 ribs to the spar. 6 posts is one wing panel. It's all about justification. You are lazy. Pure and simple. Try building one. If you fail, try another one. pretty soon you will be building a better flying model than you can go out and buy. And it won't be a cookie cutter either. Get off your lazy butts and do it. Want to argue about this? Go and look in the mirror first. Then come in here and tell me what I said has no truth to it. I don't care how many kids you have, or how many hours you work, or how many jobs you have. You can set time aside to build. You find time to come here on line and post, so use that time for building.
Bill, AMA 4720
You claim that other pilots who fly ARF's are "Lazy" right?(read as: inferior to kit builders) Did you know that, according to you, Chip Hyde, Mark Leseberg, Quique Somenzini, Mike McConville, Andrew Jeskey, Jason Shulman, etc. are all "lazy"? None of them have kit built a plane recently!(unless you classify a CompARF as a kit) I will continue to build my planes as long as I can, but I DO NOT appreciate being called lazy if I do not have room for a building board(and everything that goes with it), or the time to kit build a plane.
You, my friend, are a great person who has a the ability to build a kit and desires to take time out of your busy week to do it. However, you aren't the standard.(I'm not either nor do I claim to be)
I like flying just as much as building. I build when and what I can. I fly when and what I can. Life changes things. In a little over a month, I'm going to have to ditch this hobby for a while. If I don't buy ARF's, I will probably be out of this hobby for years. If I buy ARF's, I will probably be able to take this hobby back up next year. Which do I want to do? Be "lazy"? Or out? I love flying and I will when I can. I'm not a purist when it comes to models, I hope you really aren't one either. Be glad that you do have the ability to build your spectacular Waco YMF. Hopefully, I will be able to tackle my dream project soon as well, but until then, I might just have to be "lazy".
50%