Love to scratch build!  For me, building my own plane is 1/2 of the r/c hobby.   Building from someone else's tryed and tested plans is most enjoyable;  especially when it flies great.   The most satisfying build is drawing a set of plans from a photograph or 3-D drawings and engineering a plane that flies as good as the full scale craft.   My Wedell-Williams racer with a G-23 on it was such a build!!

It just surprises me when I go to the r/c field and the guys that fly only,  brag about their new plane(built by some China-man in a far away factory).  These planes are are built alike and are covered all the same.    Its bad enough when all our radios,servos, batteries and motors,etc. all come from the Pacific rim.   Balsa wood comes comes from S. America.  Some lite plywood and glue does come from here in the USA.   Taking pride in building my aircraft I fly lets me hold on to a little something that was built here in the USA.