Easy fellows. If everyone knew how to build and cover there would be three more guys in the unemployment line, including me. Two friends and myself build and cover models for a living.
The fact is in this society we go fast, stay busy, and run all day long, weekends not excluded. And as we all know the Feds like our wives taxes too. We all know that most households have two working people because it is hard to by on one income, which is why most couples work, leaving less time for fun things like building models. The only good part about two incomes for married couples is there is some extra money for guys like Viper to have his stuff built for him(if not married, the model building time is spent looking to get married).
By having someone build for you is not a crime to the hobby, it is a win-win in my book. This allows the guy having the plane built to have a nice kit built model that is covered the way he wants it for Sunday at the field. And the builder gains monetary value to put back into his hobby/planes. If I didn't built for customers I wouldn't be in this hobby. You see I used to be one of those parents that worked full-time (and then some) to support my family as my wife did. Now I stay at home, take care of the kids (3), the house, and build airplanes. I never think that if someone wants something built it is because they do not know how or don't want to. I think that they do not have the time, but enjoy flying with their buddies on Sunday. I don't know about you but I would rather be at the field on Sunday than in the workshop, especially with all those thundering little feet pounding the floor over my head in my basement workshop.

So if you are one of those guys/gals that have your planes built, covered, or repaired by someone other than yourself do not fell bad or let anyone tell you it is bad. There are plenty of guys like myself that do benefit from your work. So please support your local builder, we need planes too.