RE: When Do You Stop Believing?
To me it depends on the kit. For example if its a sig or gp kit thats out there by the 1000s you can be pretty sure the manual is accurate. So I would be more prone to stick with it even though I dont understand. On the other hand if its a small run kit you know its more prone to errors. I am currently building a kit that is taking me lots of extra time bc I have to double check lots of stuff before glueing.
Also, if the manual has been translated to english I tend to trust it less. An example of that is the CA models kits, they have pretty poor english translations. I speak spanish and have compared the english and spanish manuals and sometimes there are very translation errors that are significant. The GWS manuals would be another example of this. I´ve never built one of the nitromodels ARF´s but I hear their mauals are very poor too.