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Old 02-02-2016 | 02:50 PM
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looking for decent kits
getting harder to find
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What type of kits? Trainer, scale, warbird, etc......
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RCU Marketplace or the Bay are where I am having any luck at finding the old one's. Tower Hobbies has a selection of Top Flite, Great Planes and Sig kits for sale. Good Luck, Dave
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Did you check the "Where have all the kits gone" sticky at the top of this forum?
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With a lot of folks going the RTF most manufacturers cut down the selection or quit making kits all together (if they stayed in business). I have been working on getting airplane KITS in my shop without going through the major distributors for something different but that can be a bit of work shaking the bushes.
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Go to as many swap meets as you can because you can find all kinds there. There's a guy in my club who has a bunch he bought when he was young thinking he would build when he retired now he buys arfs and the kits sit in his basement. I keep telling him he can make a fortune on ebay.
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There will be kits at the Perry, GA swap meet. I've gotten some real bargains but for the last year of two they were a little scarce. I know there at least two hobby shops that set up there and they have kits stacked 10 deep x 4 tables long every year. The prices for those hobby shop kits aren't going to be discounted and you still might do better ordering online.


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I frequent the classifieds on the forums. immediate gratification may not be there, but persistence can yield the right kit and the right price.

I look for out of production kits, mostly. I eventually get what I'm looking for.

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