I can say I am a modeler and assembler as well, started 20+ yrs ago. The first 10 years I went through a lot of kit built airplanes with the learning curves and I mean alot. Now as I gained experience with building , assembling and doing a lot of scratch building in the past , I have only lost 2 planes in the past 10-12yrs due to my own ignorance/arrogance "battery failure". I do fly regularly with some high end jets as well as simple prop planes. I have assembled many of ARFS as well and learnt where alot of mistakes are made from my own arf failures. This has helped me gain experience as well when I do build my own.


My interperation of builder/ assembler.


Builder : a person who creates sub-assemblies with raw-materials then assembles the parts to create a whole complete piece .

Assembler : a person who takes prebuilt parts and fit togather to make a whole piece.

Scratch builder : someone who takes their hobby very serious and sometimes clinically unstable. LOL