Do you build more kits, or build more "scratchers"

[Sooner Boomer]

Should probably be a poll, but I like discussions as much as the answers.

Do you build more kits, or do you build more rockets from your own design. Can we call kit bashes "scratch-built"? (a kit bash is were one takes the parts from one or more kits and builds a different rocket than the instruction). As I'm moving more into high power, I find I'm building my own designs more. I still enjoy building kits, too. And if I find discounted kits at Hobby Lobby, they get snapped up for the parts (or might get built "stock").

 

[neil_w]

I'm almost all scratchers now, with the occasional kit mixed in. In an ideal world I'd be building tons of kits too, but since I won't have any place to put them, I focus on builds that are more meaningful to me which are my scratch designs. Nowadays when I build kits, it's usually because they offer something unusual, that is different from what I typically scratchbuild.

(never mind that I haven't actually done a speck of building in months)

 

[teepot]

When I got back to this I built kits. Hadn't a clue about HPR, didn't know that there were F's and G's. Then I saw some YouTube videos a few years later. I started building more kits and some more and after 18 kits I had learned about HPR, MPR and scratch building. So for the last 3 years I have been scratch building like a man possessed. I have built 150 something. So I scratch build now.

 

[prfesser]

Almost all scratchbuilt. I've randomly bought parts over the last decade or two. Almost any kit or upscale I like I can duplicate. (No, I ain't agonna try the Mars Snooper.) With some effort, yes, of course. But hey, it's a hobby, right? (Or an obsession? Don't answer that question.