O.K. folks, this isn't really a complaint on my part, more an observation than anything.
I just bought a couple of Czechmasters aftermarket sets for my Eduard 1/72 L-39 Albatros and was rather surprized by some of the choices the company made of things to include.
The interior set includes a very nice cockpit with resin, photoetch and film parts, but it also includes a vac form canopy. There's nothing at all wrong with the injection molded canopy that comes with the kit, the only reason I can see for including the canopy in the aftermarket set is due to the way the cockpit is designed to be installed.
The exterior set includes separate flaps and ailerons and other control surfaces, but the horizontal stabilizers are provided along with the elevators. I can see the elevators being provided, but there's no difference between the kit supplied horizontal stabilizers and the resin aftermarket ones.
Like I say, its not meant to be a complaint, I am happy to have the aftermarket around and I bought these two sets for a fraction of what they would have cost me in Canada.
Anybody else ever bought an aftermarket set for anything and then wondered why something was included as an "improvement" when there was nothing wrong with the kit part it was meant to replace?