On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, gareth wrote:

"Michael Black" wrote in message
news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1503141946050.15447@darkstar. example.org...

They needed more sloppy construction projects to get people to start
building. YOu can always hide a mess behind a panel, but if you don't
build in the first place because you fear you can't keep up with the
standards in the magazines, you'll have no projects at all.

Which is where the Manhattan / Dead Bug technique scores highly,
as exemplified by the EI9GQ articles currently being run here in Brit.

Yes. Better to make it, and if it's messy, hide it behind a fancy panel.

"73" used to run endless articles by Bill Hoisington, who was much more
interested in trying things than the end results. So in the sixties and
seventies, he built an awful lot of stuff (and wrote about it) using
circuit board as the 'chassis".

Michael