I love to build! I think 50% of my enjoyment of this hobby comes from building. I am saddened by the disappearance of kits. I also have a few ARFs and am thankful for them. Since Kit supplies are dwendling, I need to change my focus from kits, to building from plans. Building yourself a kit doesn't really add that much time to building and plans still seem to be available. Since I've done both, I don't see a reason to be specific about whether building from plans or designing your own need to be defined as one being scratch building and the other not. Others will feel different about this, to each his own!

Will parts for kits dry up as kits become less and less available? I would have to say; YES.

I had considered doing a poll on this very subject, as I am very interested in the subject. However, I don't see a topic where the poll would be exposed to a great enough cross section of R/Cers. As I'm not really interested in reading about ARFs, I've spent little time at this topic and I think this is my first post at the ARF or RTF topic. I came to this thread from a referance in Kit Building.