A$1,000 for a flyable defiant

[Les]

Isn't there a precedent for this? I know for sure I saw some flight-simmers chipping in to get content modelled and added into the old Il-2 series. Can't for the life of me remember where I saw it or the extent of the content that was paid for. Pretty sure it was a bomber, or the cockpits required to make one flyable. I think it might have all folded when it became clear, based on the rates for the completed project, just how much it would cost to get further stuff modelled. Might have been a russian project, anyone else remember that?