RE: You Can Win First Place at a Warbird Rally With An ARF? Really?
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters Around you have grown
And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'
Just a thought for the anti-ARF crowd: what about the ARFs that are bashed beyond recognition. In other words, the ones that were stripped of covering and/ or paint, then 'glassed and painted as a good (or better) than built model would be, changes made to airframe to make it more scale accurate/ authentic than a kit built version, and/ or other scale details added.
About 7 yers ago, My Hangar 9 Corsair was awarded "Best Scale" by a pair of judges (Kieth Shaw & Ken Myer) that previously had never even considered giving any award to any ARF. My Corsair changed their minds, and it would obviously still beat out MOST simular size Top Flite Corsairs, because of the amount of bashing I did to it and details added, and the documentation that I provided to prove it's authenticity.
BTW: the judges WERE fully aware that this was a Hangar 9 ARF