You're right on the skills learning Ernest.
And so are you rokket, that the kids nowadays don't seem to have the patience and skill to embrace building models models like this.
Do you think it's the electronic games and tech, or kids are more mobil than years ago and so don't spend as much time at home, or what? I don't know the ages of everybody on this forum but I'd bet there are few of us under 25, and most a lot older than that.
BTW, I think the "Spit" was one of the most beautiful aircraft ever designed, by any nation. It always reminds me of a bird with the shape of its wings.
Perhaps I gained that appreciation from my father, who was always relieved to see them coming up to meet him as the sun rose over the Channel on his way headed west back to base in the morning?