RE: Where Have All The Kits Gone ?
In answer to Clay Walters thoughtful post about correcting the mistakes of older kits:
There are egregious exceptions but I think many of the "legacy kits" will build adequately using the plans and instructions provided with the materials alone. I think a real innovation in the last ten years has been the Build Forum concept and it's immediate access to and dispersal of innovation and improvement. Once average builders worked in isolation but can now tart up their projects with little risk of failure after having seen it done successfully at least once. Every tinkerer longs to innovate and leave his signature on something he puts so much work into. Carbon this, pull-pull that, are now like rights of passage into the domain of the advanced craftsman.
The next stage will be CAD file sharing and consumer-oriented laser cutters! Now if we could find a really cheap substitute for balsa wood.....