"David J. Schat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted, "Why I like instructions!" and quiche, too :-)!?
"Aside from all the things previously mentioned I like to read through the instructions first (several times) and visualize how a model goes together.... then it's time to start optimizing. I rarely follow instructions to the letter. I usually modify the order in which things go together to make the building easier and facilitate doing excellent craftsmanship. I also substitute materials regularly. I've built countless models in my life and really enjoy building. Do I need instructions to build a model? No. having instructions make it more ENJOYABLE! I know, I'm not a real man... I like quiche also ;- ) " Sorry! If reposting bothers you--it ALWAYS does me--but maybe someone will have missed this excellent post.. AND I want to piggyback it and "preach" a bit :-) --NOT O.K. !!?? I have been a builder all my life--I remember in the Jimmy Allen era (AGAIN I reference Dave Thornburg's, "Do You Speak Model Airplane? the story of aeromodeling in America" a book of revelations, IF you don't know who Jimmey Allen was :-) cutting out--my first scratch build, at FIVE--a profile something like a P-40 and getting it all glued together. Later came sticks & paper, later U-control, some rubber (motor) powered birds that REALLY flew, HLG, (an interlude of FULL scale sailplanes--and one big JASCO bird I put a Cox 0.10 on--a little under powered :-) , a LONG interlude of none and then RC "ditty" power and finally RCHLG & now RCHLG-DHL :-) !! I do love to build and I build better than I fly--for sure! The point "preacher" , the point! "Yah!" Well, I am not as good at it as David :-) !! I could never have built most kits without the instructions and a built up without plans--almost impossible, though I have thought of trying it just for the doing. On a kit a number of you have built ( kitted and merchandized by a biggie--not anyone who has been a part of RCSE--and a has been now :-( I found one wing half a bay larger than the other when I kit bashed it :-) !!?? I love it when I read the disclaimer, "These plans may have shrunk!" "Yah!!" ESPECIALLY the "Skeeter" plans--just had to throw that in :-) !! "WELL!" Something sure shrank--I think it was the parts :-) ; cause the plans were bigger than the parts--I am rational!! The POINT!! Do you want to know what is wrong with the world--we threw out the instructor, the game plan and the instructions a long time back--an illustration I make from my modeling time to time--no designer, no purpose, no plan. . . ?! "Do I need instructions to build a model? No. having instructions make it more ENJOYABLE! I know, I'm not a real man... I like quiche also ;- )" A box of balsa and some glue, a model don't make--and all the innate and learned matter still fall short of making Humpty Dumpty a flyer :-) again!? Well, "Do I need instructions" !? O.K. "No," but no plans--don't think it is going to go together very fast or probably very well, but for SURE, "having instructions make it more ENJOYABLE!" and that part about the "quiche" !? Go figure :-) !! If you don't know who Jimmy Allen was you may not know what a Sky Pilot is either ;-) ! Paul Clark, SKY PILOT ONE, Osaka, Japan (AMA # 53 777 1) http://www.kcat.zaq.ne.jp/skypilot/ SKY PILOT'S HANGAR--RCHLG AFICIONADO RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
