Re: A storm is coming! Please delete!
I'm bothered.
For the first time that I can remember, moderators have started locking research & build threads in the SSM forum, just because the scratch-builders who started these projects have decided somewhere along the way to make patterns and kit their creations. Happened to Steve's eight year old TIE thread, and Lee's Probe Droid Pod thread over the weekend.
Now apparently, as soon as you're actually generous enough to start sharing your work with the rest of the RPF, your reward is that all of your research and build progress threads have to be summarily closed down, apparently without consideration.
If this is how it works, I can promise you that even more real builders will do exactly like Lee is doing, take their builds, and all of their corresponding parts discoveries and reference, and kits off-board.
If that doesn't bother you too, then I'm afraid you don't really understand the original purpose of this forum.