journey_man01 wrote:
> ...It's a shame that children
> aren't brought up with kits like these anymore. I wish I could have had
> something like this.

Very well said, and I heartily agree. I feel the same way about Lego.
With my Lego in the 1960s I could build a plane, spaceship, boat,
building...just about anything. Nowadays a kid wouldn't even try unless
he had a special kit with special parts for each of those.