I'm new to this website,  but I've been flying RC since 1979.  In the early 1990's I started hanging out with Pete Fusco,  the plans designer and author of several construction articles for various magazines.  I though the stuff Pete built was pretty cool,  but I really wasn't that gung-ho for scale myself.  But over the years,  it seems to have gotten under my skin.  Not to the point that I have been scratch building or even building from plans.  But I have built a few scale kits.  In fact I have a collection of OOP scale kits such as a very nice Berkeley Navion and sterling Tripacer, Stafford Commanche, Ercoupe, and a Sig Bonanza, (my avatar).  I tend to hoard the OOP civilian stuff.  There are always plenty of war bird kits,  but the civil stuff is getting rare.

Anyway,  I'm retired now.  I had hoped to be building some more complex projects.  But it seems I just spend more time flying.  It is difficult to be inspired to build.  Nobody around me seems to build scale kits anymore,  or any kits for that matter.  And the people that I fly with really don't understand what they are looking at when they look at one of my airplanes.

So lately, I have been buying ARFs and then stripping them down and dressing them up. I like it.  IT is quick and rewarding.

 I also fly aerobatic airplanes,  but I don't spend much time building them.

Well sir, welcome the the site. If you're not inspired here you need to take up stamp collecting! You have some really nice kits there and the time to build them too. ARF's are a lot of fun to bash and you must have extensive experience in that area. Please feel free to share with us and once again, welcome home!!!.    

Welcome aboard!