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Lars.Baeter Site Supporter
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Joined: March/18/2004 Germany Posts: 425 IP Logged
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Posted: March/23/2006 at 9:21am |
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Sometimes I'm asking myself how I could have built modelairplanes without all these PC Stuff, without asking thousands of people in different forums for support, without 'googling' around for special parts and detailed images and without all my expensive tools I have ??? ??? ???
Parts of an laser cut kit are really noble and I admire them but often the wood quality of a full wood kit not. Sometimes the wood is warped and to heavy or to soft. So I prefer to order the wood from my special local dealer who delivers manual sorted 1A quality just in the weight I want it.
Depending the laser cut parts. Cutting all these formers and ribs by myself is pure joy. I love this work and I could do it all the time. O.K. my parts haven't always the same quality of laser cut parts and when the part in the plan has the wrong shape my selfmade part become also the wrong shape, (so there is finally no difference to a laser cut short kit )
I enjoy most of the building phase and have no pressure at all to become faster ;) but if I could I would mill parts by myself. My models become all electric powered and often I have to modify something. It would be a pleasure to modify parts from the plans with a CAD Software and to mill then by myself but I would never complete pass on sawing parts by msyself.
Cheers!, LarS 8^)
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Darren40 Site Supporter
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Joined: September/11/2003 Canada Posts: 92 IP Logged
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Posted: March/23/2006 at 9:17pm |
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I voted for a full wood kit, but only because I prefer it all else being equal. If the kit cutter uses good quality wood and the parts all fit well, then there's no point in spending hours cutting from patterns. I wouldn't mind and might even prefer building from a short kit (excluding foam wings) except that the nearest LHS is several hundred miles away so its a hassle for me to get quality balsa, especially since I want to hand pick. I've been building a Skyshark kit and everything fits together very well and the wood quality is very good with very few minor exceptions. I would say the same for an Airsail kit I built earlier. Because of my location, a full kit is most practical for me from either of these manufacturers. I've built several red box TF kits years ago and they weren't bad. However, I recently acquired a TF Gold Edition kit and the wood is very heavy. It's the worst wood I've seen in any kit, by far. I bought the kit on Ebay with the horiz. stab. already built. The builder did a fine job, but the wood is so heavy I'll have to build from scratch to replace it. I'll probably replace 80% of the parts in the kit to bring the weight down to where it should be for a bird this size. (Now I understand why everyone says the TF kits build heavy and need more power than specified. Based on the contents of this kit I probably wouldn't buy another TF kit unless it was a short kit. So, in my case my preference has a lot to do with my location and the quality of wood in the kit.
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in progress:
Sig PT-19 converting to PT-26
scratch built 1/6 I-16 Ishak
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Joined: February/13/2007 United States Posts: 89 IP Logged
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Posted: February/17/2007 at 8:23am |
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I voted cut my own, however, I have never used a cutter so have no experience. I'll be building a 1/5th scale CT Davies Sopwith Pup from plans and hope to use a cutter to cut out all them wing ribs and half ribs!
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ERFR Site Supporter
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Joined: October/25/2005 Israel Posts: 672 IP Logged
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Posted: February/17/2007 at 9:33am |
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Prefer to cut my own.
One "practical" reason - by the time a custom kit would get shipped to my corner of the world, the cost would be enormous.
One "personal" reason - it allows changing materials and laminating the thicker parts for a better structure in my opinon.
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Connieman Basic Member
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Joined: March/28/2007 Canada Posts: 60 IP Logged
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Posted: May/11/2007 at 5:26am |
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Like another modeler said, this is question of personal preference really, there is not one or two answers for it in reality, everybody like to go around this as they feel comfortable. For me i like to cut my own parts from the plans, mind you i have never bought a kit from laser kit cutters out there yet but i am sure if there are errors on the drawings from which the kit is being cut from, you will find them on the parts and their fitting also, i highly doubt if any of kit cutters would take there sweet time to rectify errors in plans and then cut the kit. Plus when i am doing my own cutting i can see how the model was designed and if there are errors on the plans, i could fix them as i go.
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Red_Jeepster Basic Member
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Joined: March/27/2009 United States Posts: 4 IP Logged
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Posted: May/12/2009 at 9:13pm |
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I voted for my own cutting. Really, the time I spend selecting wood, positioning the piece for grain direction, cutting out the parts, etc is PART of building IMHO.
What is the hurry? To build a masterpiece one doesn't mind being part of the whole process.
I am not against kit cutters at all. I have never used one, so I don't have any business talking about them, good or bad. Would I use one? Sure if I was building for someone else and they wanted to pay for the service.
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Hopper5775 Lifetime Site Supporter
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Posted: July/04/2009 at 8:36am |
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Well, as I am drawing close to the the end of my first scratch build, I'd have to say cutting my own. Now, I enjoy building from a kit too, as there is always something to fix and to fabricated that isn't included in the kit. But as I wind down this project and get ready to have others see it, I find a definite sense of pride building in me knowing I'll be able to say, "Yeah, I cut and glued every stick in her." It's been a long and sometimes tedious process, but I have enjoyed it so much.
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Flying: 1/4 BUSA Cub, 1/4 BUSA Nieuport 11
On Hold: 1/4 SS DIII, 1/4 Sopwith Baby
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john62544 Basic Member
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Joined: November/19/2008 United States Posts: 877 IP Logged
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Posted: July/12/2009 at 5:46pm |
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My vote for purchasing a full wood kit from a kit cutter is of course depending on the quality of the company doing the kit cutting.
John,TX
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