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Originally Posted by olddog

FYI - unfinished kits are usually that way because they could not be finished. People usually have a plan to buy it and finish it. You are counting on yourself being smarter than they were, and assuming the manufacturer sold them a well designed kit. One or both of these assumptions could be far from the truth. Most likely at least one is not correct.

It is highly unlikely that some moron, with an over inflated ego, bought a well designed kit, and you are going buy and finish it with relative ease, and enjoy every minute of it. Think long and hard. Learn all you can about these cars and the many manufacturers. You could be heading into your worst nightmare.

Add to that the fact that almost all of the unfinished kits you find here and there are from companies no longer in business. People don't know what they're getting and then come here only to find that the place is long out of business and parts aren't available. If you stick with kits from the majors (like Factory Five) you might be OK but those kits evolve too and missing parts might be hard to get.