RE: Builder or flyer?
I love to build. Sig's kits are some of my favorites, (Astro Hog and Hog bipe, two Kadet seniors, a Cub, a Kougar, and a Kavalier). Not to mention most all of the rubber powered stuff.
HOWEVER Right now I am flying all RTF's-Several electric park flyers/wings, a Great Planes RTF glider, Seagull models Spacewalker II ARF, a H-9 Arrow, and, Alpha RTF's
Why? Simple: time. I am flying RTF's for instruction, and the others as "sport" planes while I build another Kadet Senior and others.
Jetts