ColoradoSolar
Well Known Member
If you were only going to go QuickBuild on either the fuselage or the wings which one would you pick?
If you dont like building as much I would suggest QB fuselage. Definitely takes longer to get the Fuselage up to the QB level compared to the wings in my opinion. The fuselage is a lot more mentally interesting to build though !
Save the money. The standard -14 kits are so quick and easy to build that the QBs are simply not as tempting as they were for earlier kits.
I?m not quite eight weeks into my fuselage kit, about halfway through section 35, and will be ready when my finish kit arrives at the end of the month.
I?m hoping to fly by the end of the year with about 18 months into my entirely slowbuild -14A.
Wings .. that way you can do 100% in your garage and then just move everything to the hangar for final assembly.
How much time are you putting in per day?
I like the time in the shop and I am quite happy that I still have to build a lot of stuff before bringing the plane to the airfield. Is that strange?
Quickbuild kits are the exact antithesis of that philosophy and not in the spirit of homebuilding.
I definitely built mine at home, just in 14 months and not 3 years.
For me, it’s neither a price-based nor value-based decision, but one resulting from a desire to touch as many parts as practical of everything I build. Quickbuild kits are the exact antithesis of that philosophy and not in the spirit of homebuilding.
Ten years ago I waited for over FOUR MONTHS during the winter. Just sitting, watching bad tv and doing a very slow burn.