Funny you should say this. I started on an RTF. Then I tried an ARF. Then another RTF.

After that I have purchased or been given a number of models that have already been built. Many have needed some kind of repair. Between my own inflicted damage, and fixing up these .... fix-er-uppers, I am becoming a builder, despite all my efforts to avoid building.

I actually built a ZAGI EPP Foam wing from wing cores alone. I don't really consider that "building", but it is getting close.

Some of the guys in the club kid me because I say I am not a builder, then walk into a meeting with a rebuilt wreck to ask the wizards to check it for allignment or any problems. Recently they smile and say I am becoming a builder. I deny it, but it is getting harder and harder to deny.

Who knows, I may actually build a plane from a box of sticks one day, if I fatally crash enough of the 15 planes I have today.