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Years ago, I used to build model sailing ships. I'd get a styrene model and spend a month or two putting it together, painting it, and rigging it. I enjoyed myself tremendously. Then, in 1980, my wife pulled one of those wifely tricks on me. She bought me a wooden model of a J-Class racing sloop. The hull was a roughly shaped block of wood that I was supposed to cut down to match paper templates. After three months of working on the hull, I decided that building this model <i>was not fun</i>! In fact it was so much not fun that I haven't built any more sailing ship models to this day. <br /> <br />A lot of people just getting into model railroading have similar experiences. They'll start working on a kit and it'll be a disaster. How many of us have cut a piece off of a sprue and watched the piece fly off towards the next county? If that happens enough times (say, twice), then the novice will decide "kits are not fun, I'll stick will RTR."
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