Thank you kind sir.... true.. true... PE is a huge jump towards fine scale work on any model. Yes, you can purchase the equipment to make your own and even 3D parts.. its endless and so is the pocketbook. (not mine). Working at 1/200 scale is nice, but you get a huge model and I'm running out of room in our home.. case upon case of model ships.. I think I have a maritime museum. I did one model at 1/350, including PE parts. Talk about tiny parts, it was a real stretch to build something like that, but the model size is really small and I could build me a fleet of battleships at that scale and some folks do. Cheers, Dennis