Do you build more kits or 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]

Duplicate?

 

[Sooner Boomer]

Duplicate?

yeah. I posted the first one, or at least tried to, but the web puked at that moment and I thought the topic post had been lost. If an admin wants to delete THIS topic, that would be OK

 

[georgegassaway]

About 95-98% scratchbuilt.

I really enjoy designing.

Last kit I built, was the Estes 1/45 Little Joe-II almost 6 years ago, because that vehicle is one of my favorites. And my original 1/45 Centuri Little Joe-II is unflyable anymore.

 

[Antares JS]

Most of my LPR's are kits. There is enough variety that I can almost always find a kit for any configuration I want.

Most of my HPR's are my own designs. There is less variety and availability and I have found it easier to just design and build my own to get what I want out of the rocket.

 

[les]

Majority of my rockets are kits
A few of my scratch builds I think came out fantastic, others not so much - thought they would be better than what actually came out to be.

 

[Igotnothing]

Make motors out of any 6061-T6 pipe I stumble across;
Realize too late it is a bizzar OD;
Make scratch-built rockets.

The path of my destruction is evident.

 

[Old School Doug]

Of the 41 currently in my fleet only 3 are from kits, 2 of which had a price at HL that I just couldn't pass up.