I've got a tower catalog, that has maybe 5-10 arfs in it, they were the hobbico and kyosho planes. That was about it for arfs back then, and those were noveties. Now, you can count the number of kits in 2 pages, I think it's pathetic. But the arf has it's place I suppose, to me they are in the trash bags at the field, for others, they are the only way to get into the hobby due to time constraints. But if anyone starts preaching how arfs are great in this thread, they should read what fourm they are in first.
Oh, you forgot that where those 100 lawyers were laying down, on the santa monica freeway, I agree leave them there. I have a friend that went to pick up his daughters son from the ex's house, the kid and father beat him unconcious, then when he came to, they said he slipped and fell. His son was in the truck and watched the whole thing, it took him 5 years to get the settlement from the courts and a payout. How rediculous is our system if the lawyers can defend this kid and father for 5 years and finally lose, even with a witness and a hospital visit? Well, back to the lack of kits, there are still plenty of kits out there, it's just all the really good ones that were made by great people in the hobby are slowly being decommisioned and shut down. Any of you ever walk into that old school hobbyshop that's been around since the 50's and see the personal collection of planes built and flown by the owner from decades ago? That's what modeling use to be, now it's big flashy boxes and shiny plastic cookie cutter planes all stacked up because the margin was great and he bought a heap of them. The day's of walking in and finding dope and koverall are going the way of the do-do, just try to find good AAA grade balsa at some shops, you wont. I actually laughed at the selection of one shop, the guy said he had balsa, I went to the bin and all that was there was small sticks, a few sheets that looked like they came from honduras in 1976 and almost every sheet was cracked or damaged to point where it was unusable unless I was building a tooth pick building. I think it's about time I place a very large order to BUSA or lonestar for balsa and start scratch building from now on. Sooner or later, RCU is going to have to remove this fourm because there will be no more kit's being made and we will all be forced to relocate to the scratch building fourm.