2DARK2C wrote:
now that that is settled

pop quiz
what about recycling customs?
say you made a bunch of lbc's and put them in the gallery. a few weeks later you "need" that torso for your thunder dome fabio!
what do you do...what do you do?
Early on I did this a lot. Once I started modifying parts that all stopped. If I could make X look like Y, I didn't to sacrafice something I was happy with already.
That and once I had a stockpile of fodder I could focus on buying or trading for the occasional duplicate part I needed.