Hmm, interesting idea. Sometimes a video is the best way to pass information, especially about processes like how to plank. But I'm far from certain that a video is the best way to transmit a rigging plan or a multi page list of part numbers.
So there are no drawings, no list of part numbers for checking contents and finding pieces, no written instructions? All replaced with a lot of screen time, scrolling back and forwards, dodging the ads? There's no way to tick off the completed items or make notes. No way to quickly refer to operations needed to be considered when planning modifications. And how many modellers wish follow the sequence of operations exactly? With no paper plan how do I build new parts when I break something?
I've had a look at the videos and find the subtitles very hard to read and transient. There's no transcript. Effectively no words at all. The individual videos are numbered with no title to suggest what is covered, making looking things up very difficult indeed.
Depending on these videos alone would be very inconvenient for me, an old guy with worn out eyes. No, more than inconvenient - it would be impossible. There's also an assumption that everyone is online with a reliable connection, and indeed that they want to be.
I wonder too how the people who build this kit in ten or twenty years time will manage. Some of the kits in my collection are older than that, and I wonder whether You Tube will be there in 20 years - it wasn't there 20 years ago and there are many things that we thought would last forever, which are now gone from our screens. Some manufacturers are no longer trading - I hope AL will be but nothing is certain. Is it wise for customers to depend on your continuing tech support, without a paper back up.
It seems that this kit cannot be built from the contents of the box alone. Maybe I'm old fashioned and anti-tech but to me that's an incomplete kit. Until this point I loved your Victory and declared it a winner, but with this serious handicap I must revise that opinion. I now think it's a disaster from the modellers point of view, though I guess it will save the costs of printing and YouTube will pay you for attracting views.
As you know, Victory is too big for me anyway so this matter of the kit's instructions won't affect me directly. However, are you planning to omit the paperwork from all of your kits in future? I really hope not.
