<p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Oh boy.  I’ve seen this debate a number of times.   The guys who design and build want to, and should be recognized for the extra skill and effort required.  I have scratch built a number of planes from plans and built many kits with instructions that vary in quality.  Never designed and built.  The design aspect alone requires an additional level of knowledge, skill, and dedication that not everyone has.   

So the designations are: 
<u>Flyer</u> - Flies stuff other people sell, or RTF.  Likes flying but not working on models. 
<u>Assembler</u> - Assemble and fly ARF or similar
<u>Builder</u> - Builds kits with plans and instructions developed by someone else (keeps folks like me on the correct path and from going crazy <span style="mso-no-proof: yes"><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f" id="_x0000_t75"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t"></path><lock aspectratio="t"></lock></shapetype><shape type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/js/punymce/plugins/emoticons/img/trans.gif" id="Picture_x0020_1" style="WIDTH: 0.75pt; HEIGHT: 0.75pt; VISIBILITY: visible; mso-wrap-style: square"><imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\ccorne10\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\ 01\clip_image001.gif"></imagedata></shape></span>)
<u>Scratch Builder</u> - Builds from plans with limited or no instructions (A cake baked from scratch still uses a recipe).
<u>Designer Builder</u> - Designs a model from pictures or 3 view drawings and then works through the process of making components and assembling them into a model.

</p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">For some reason people leave of the last category of designer builder and call them scratch builders.  They truely deserve their own catagory for the dedicated modeler with the skills and patience to go through the process of designing and creating a unique model.  Wish I had the skills but not yet.  After viewing this amazing build it looks like I have a ways to go shoring up my building skills also! </span><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">

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It should be noted that nothing is wrong with any of these catagories.  We all like working, flying, RC models.  


 
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