ORIGINAL: jship
What You mean is, it's hard to justify haveing that much fun for only $330?
ORIGINAL: ccostant
I understand how you feel about ARFs, don't get me wrong I love to build, and I don't want to start a kit vs. ARF war but spending somewhere around $330 for a kit/cowl/wheels pants you have too build and cover/paint is hard to justify when you can buy a very nice 50CC size ARF for ~ $550. I'm just going to stick to building warbird kits.
That's about right. While unpacking my kit I piled it next to a stack of balsa/ply for another project and had about the same amount of material in each. The "pile" cost about the same and had no hardware, plans were $55 extra, no canopy etc...and I had to substitute basswood for spruce which the midwest includes....and it's laser cut as opposed to be being "me" cut lol.
I have openly joked in the past that sooner or later it's going to be cheaper to buy old kits for wood than buying the wood itself...we're about there now.
Oh and half the bags in the midwest kit are labeled made in the USA or made in Italy as opposed to China.