Al stien

I do agree with your points. Just seemed to me from the posts that this person really wouldn't be satisfied with a beginner kit?
And building one kit (especially a begginer kit )IMO isn't going to help that much if his second project is a scratch build. He might as well skip the kit and buy a book and use these forums during his project. Like I sais in my first post if he can't complete the scratch build project what is he really out in terms of money 100 ? and what will he have learned about scratch building and kit building in general ? My point was only that it wasn't impossible to start out scratch building and it isn't terriably expensive.

I may have read more into it and made some assumptions