Originally posted by stumax
How complete do you guys expect a kit to be? Is a kit comprising of a glass fuse, moulded wings & tail, canopy plus good instructions gonna sell, or does it need to have evrything needed to finish the model?
Depends on the price, plus what kind of goodies I need to buy to complete the kit, how readily available they are, what the model is, etc.
If I need to mail-order parts form 20 different suppliers in order to build the beast, the shipping alone could be prohibitive; if the kit is designed to use parts that are common enough that I can pick them all up from just one or two sources, that helps.
Also depends on just how badly I want the kit. If you're gonna sell a model that I can buy in a more complete kit form elsewhere, for a reasonable price, I'll probably go for the more complete model; if on the other hand, you are offering a model that I want but can't get anywhere else, I'll put up with a lot of hassle in procuring the parts. e.g if you're gonna offer a nice kit of a BAe Hawk, Panavia Tornado, Gloster Meteor, Hawker Hunter, etc - I'd be willing to accept a much "shorter" kit than if we were talking about another flying-wing kind of trainer, etc.
YMMV,
Gordon