ORIGINAL: ram3500-RCU

Although building will eventually become more difficult (my local hobby shop has stopped stocking parts like canopies and other things because they say fewer poeple are building) due to the availability of kits and parts, I still will enjoy it in addition to rebuilding. I take pride in being able to resurrect a crash, that most would write off, and make it like new both in structural integrety and apperance, for myself and others. Without my building background, I doubt that I would be able to pull this off. I enchourage anyone wishing to take up this hobby, to aquire some knowledge of what makes a good airframe and how to maintain and repair and modify them when nessasary. I'm including pictures of an example. It is an ARF aquired in a trade. It had been crashed and then an attempt at repair was made by someone with little or no building experiance. I stripped off the old repair and did my own with this result. I am also covering a pair of fiberglass wheel pants to match, so it will look better than it did befor ethe crash. Some times crashes just are not worth the effort. But a lot more ARFs are written off than need be, IMO, if only more could build.