Its the day after Christmas. You have three choices, go to the mall with your wife and sit in the little chair in the womans dept for hours. Look at a ARF you received and know the LG will rip out the 1st hard landing, and the motor will shoot out the front. Or open that kit and start in laying the first stick of wood on the building bench knowing in a few months when the snow melts and the Robins start to sing you will have built a plane just the way you wanted and have the thrill of the first flight yet to come. So it don't matter to me if builders are a dieing breed, or ARfs fill the shelves at my LHS, I will keep building the planes I love to see take to the air built by me.