ORIGINAL: NCIS
Think your a little confused about the thread. Read the first one I wrote! Then MAYBE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND. By the way if you don't build anymore, why don't you stay in you ARF or RTF catagory? A little miffed[:@]
Now I am confused. I went back and re-read your OP. It says:
If this trend of ARF's continues there won't be any kits for us die-hard kit builders to build. Tell me your reason for not building!
It sounded to me like you expected some non-builders to be reading and responding to your question. I responded. I don't build kits (any more) because it's time-consuming, tedious and dangerous to your health, and the final result costs more and is lower quality than a factory-built plane. I explained that this is what factory building does for all products once a certain level of production is reached.
To be honest, I did think about the appropriateness of my response before writing. It's not my way to rain on anybody's parade, and I didn't want to give the impression of a non-kit builder crashing your cozy forum to slam kit building. But, in the thread, I saw quite a bit of bashing of folks who don't build kits (the most common epithet is "lazy"), so I thought some response was necessary. Besides, you did ask the question.
For the record, the reason I visit this forum is that I have, in the past, built quite a few kits that are still available, and I like to help guys that are building them now.