Wow, your the first person I heard made some money building r/c kits for people. Reminds me of my grandfather. He was an autobody man in a small town in Nebraska since the end of WWII. Guys around town would buy old cars and stick them in their garage and then invite him over to show them the car's they bought with intentions to restore. Once I was there visiting when one of the guys had my grandfather come over to their house to view such an item. They were in the garage for an hour or so talking about the car and then my grandfather and I left. When we left my grandfather was telling me that he actually hates going over and looking at these type of things because he knows all the guys want to do is get my grandfather to do all the work and then they own and drive the finished product around like they were the ones who did all the work and spent all the time working on.

Such work on r/c planes I guess would pay off if you were a retired guy who wasn't making money with your time outside of building one for someone. Depending on plane, how much time in total would it take? I've been building my SIG Komet now for approximately a month and a half, in the sixth week now. Probably spent roughly on average two hours per weekday evening and between 6 to 8 hours in total over each weekend since the build start date. If I were to build this kit for someone, how much would my time be worth? Lets just hypothetically say it takes me 200 hours from start to finish working on this bird. If they pay me $1 per hour for my labor, I'd make $200.00. Now is someone going to want to pay an additional $200 on top of all the other expenses such as building materials, the kit itself, etc? Just like my grandfather working on other guy's collector cars, building planes for people is no different, the time and efforts you put in are more like charity work. I think most people would elect to just go out and buy and ARF, RTF, PNP, BNF, etc. It would actually be much cheaper going that route vs having it built by someone, unless your doing it all free of charge. This is the other reason why the already built planes are constructed so cheap with cheap materials, because the company which builds them needs to make money some way or the other.

And again, so far all the birds I've wanted have only been offered in unbuilt kits. They don't make a SIG Kougar ARF simply because there is too much work involved building such birds. They'd have to charge more than what most people would be willing to pay for that size of bird. And if they ever do offer it in a ARF, RTF, etc. I guarantee you the quality of the materials and/or construction will decrease compared to the traditional unbuilt SIG Kougar kits.