What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

I have embarked on my 2nd kit. It is a 4* 120 and I can't wait to get to the radio and linkage installation. That is my favorite task in the building process!!!! My second favorite is fabrication of parts/ideas, that I think will help strength or appearance. I had a post out there about a cowl for this plane. I decided to do my own. I will post pictures in a few weeks. I actually used the original cheeks, turned the Saito on it's side, (after making the right cheek removable, and cutting out for engine cylinder etc.).... I then "filled in" the top area with a shaped block of balsa that is also removable. Sanding stuff in general, is my least favorite. Although I do like filling dents with spackle and smoothing them out. (weird aren't I ??):D .... lownslo

look at all these sticks....
 

least favorite: waiting for something that uses exopy to dry!!!

favorite: applying the ultracoat and graphics as i can see the end coming and the finish product that i can do the cave man growl to uhre uhre..... :cool:

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite; starting a new project.
Least favorite; cleaning the shop for the next project.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Terrell, you took the words right outta my mouth! LOL

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite: Covering

Least Favorite: Painting

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite: Covering with Monokote, installing and hooking up servos and pushrods.... just feels like the machine is being brought to life :)


Least Favorite: Sanding, cutting cowels, painting designs on cowels & wheelpants.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Least favorite: Hinging.

Most favorite: Glueing the first two pieces together. Maybe that's why I have so many half completed projects :)

John

Well....
 

Fav - buying the kit

least fav - paying the builder when he is done....

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite: Hinging and buying everything(engine, radio, etc.)
Least fav: Cutting Ultracote and Monocote
Jordan

Kit chores
 

Favorite: Building the wings.

Least favorite: Hinging and installing the radio equipment

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Lownslo, I'm in the middle of building a 4 star 120 too. So far got the wing done but not covered, and the stab done. Probably my 50th kit or so though. :p

My favorite parts are framing, & covering. Least favorite is sanding, mostly because of the dust not the sanding itself. Other part I dread is masking for trim paint and having it mess up.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

My favorite step is opening the box, my least favorite is looking at all the pieces and knowing I have to put them where the belong.
Really my favorite is watching the parts take shape. My least favorie would be hinges, and glueing the tail feathers on.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

I love the framing up of the plane and seeing it take shape but when it comes to covering I start to slow down and I come to an almost dead stop when it comes time to install the radio gear, EEWWWWW I hate installing radio gear!!!!!!

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite - Building the plane and first flight

Worst - sanding blocks to shape. Begging the wife for the money to get "my next plane". :)

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite: admiring a finished part (wing, stab, etc.)

Worst: putting on the canopy (man I stink and that)

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favourites:
- Starting a new project

Least favourite:
- hinging
-realizing I have to modify something I didn't count on for interference
- having to sell something to make room for the new project
- messing up paint
- realizing something doesn't match my documentation
- repair from some stupid incident like dropping an engine on a recently framed part. :stupid:

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite:
-Starting a new kit.
-Being able to start the next step because the glue is dry.
-The feeling when everything comes out right.

Least favorite:
-Having to create a post asking how to remedy a bonehead manuever.
-Not having a warm enough garage.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

most fav----flying
least fav----Mounting the engine and control linkage

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Fav Doing some way complex thing on the model and the feeling that comes when it all works out right. Recent example, redesigning the fuce on my Hog bipe.


Least fav The stuff that is supposed to be simple but turns into a nightmare! Recent example, changing the OS FP 25 to an OS SX 32 in my Corsair II. All I had to do was to widen the rails a little and drill 4 little holes. Damn drill bit went in then decided to slide out at a 45` angle to the rail thus hogging out a huge gash. By the time this was over I has to carve out a shelf in the rails to hold some 1/4" oak mounts with blind nuts then epoxy it all in wile not changing the trust setting or spacing on the engine or gluing the engine to the plane. At the last second before I did this I though I'd had better put some kind of grease on the bottom of the engine. Only thing I had was some butter in the fridge. Good thing I did because some epoxy decided to creep up hill to the engine and got all over the bottom. When I pulled the engine out I had a perfect mold of the bottom of the engine! Yes I had to Moto-tool all that crap out to. So the simple task of just drilling four holes took me a week to do.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

My Favorite would be any construction where at the end of the day, you see some accomplishment.

I hate the stuff where you worked for 3 or 4 hours and it doesn't look any different.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite: Framing, installing servos/linkages and covering

Least favorite: cutting/fitting fiberglass cowls.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Most favorite framing (and sanding) wing, wing sheeting and blending them into one piece.

Least favorite - installing radio equipment and gluing canopies on (so now I use screws:) )

Jerry

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite; opening a new kit, and taking a bit whiff, then speading it all out, and looking at what I've gotten myself into.
Least favorite; hooking up radio stuff.

Jetts

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Yeah, like unpinning a beautiful wing from the building board to turn it over and sticking the tip up into a ceiling fan! Man, I really hate when that happens.

What is your favorite kit building task?... your least favorite?
 

Favorite: Framing, mounting engine, hinges

Least Favorite: COVERING and installing radio gear.

I absolutely hate covering. I don't suck at it. I can do a pretty darn good job of covering. It's just so time consuming; and such tedious work. It seems like it takes just as long to cover a model as it does to do everything else.