Patience is one way to describe what it takes to build. When I was a kid building Guillow's kits my "little" brother use to try to build one with me. He'd get halfway through wing panel a rib or stringer would snap in half (as seems to always have happened on the Guillow's kits) and he'd yell and crunch the whole model up in a fit of rage. I just sort of soldiered on.

There's a certain "fiddliness" involved in fiddling with models.

But of course there's parts of modeling that I'm "patient" with and other parts that drive me nuts. For example, I'd got no patience at all with setting up the plumbing. And I don't have any patience (i.e. don't enjoy) turning engines or really doing any of the mechanical stuff. But give me a good scale building problem from how to replicate a wire trailing edge to lozenge fabric and I'll keep at it with an "obsessiveness" that others might interpret as patience.

Thinking of the "rich person" story, when I was working in Kuwait, there'd be Kuwaitis who would buy a $3,000 camera and then bring it back to the shop to have a new roll of film put in.