RMS Mauretania in 1:600

[MisterCA]

Jimsky

 

[Heinrich]

am entitled to my opinion. A great kit should not require expensive detail-up sets or significant scratch building. A great kit should have clear instructions, possibly in color (yes, we're in the 21st century), and have correct paint diagrams. Molds should be crisp and use modern plastics.

I can point you to a $15 USD ship kit with enough photoetch out of the box to create a marvelously beautiful model.

So, it begs the question of what YOU think is a great kit?

With that said, I have dealt with enough OCD, autists, and armchair experts to make me think twice about posting anymore on this forum. It's worse than the cesspool that is Reddit.

Dear Sir - Yes, you are entitled to your opinion and to your point of view of what constitutes a "great" kit or not.

If you want to liken some of the commentaries as OCD, I am sure that SOS members can stomach that and some will even be proud of such a label.
In the same vein, if we are brutally honest, the majority of us are indeed armchair experts - in varying degrees for sure - but still armchair experts as most of us do not have firsthand knowledge or personal experience of the subject matter that we are building.

However, as an educator I take the strongest exception to your reference to "autists" as if it is some "defect". To pass a cursory comment like this when you have clearly no idea of the heartaches, pain and challenges that parents, therapists and educators face when working with autistic children (or adults for that matter), is nothing short of insensitive and discriminatory in the worst sense.

About your last comment of SOS being worse than a cesspool; I know that I certainly wouldn't like to find myself in a cesspool, I would get out as quickly as I can.