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Old 01-09-2012 | 01:33 PM
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 <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); ">So, what I am hearing is this: </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); "/><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); "/><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); ">The guy who goes to home depot, buys a bunch of blue core foam and scratch builds a scale jet that at best leaves a lot to be desired is a " modeler "</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); "/><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); "/><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); ">The guy who shows up with a BVM Ultra Bandit ARF, that has been expertly built, with a super clean radio install, painted trays, custom made do-dads, completely fitted out </span>cockpit<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); "> with pilots, and a full lighting package....with not so much as a drop of glue or blemish anywhere is a "ARFer"?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); "/><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); "/><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 255); ">That about right?</span> 
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</div><div>Pretty much.  Pretty much...</div><div>
</div><div>I think ARFs should be static judged in a separate class from kits when possible.</div><div>
</div><div> What bugs me are the 'checkbook' modelers who phone in their orders to an assembler and pick it up a couple months later. We see it in the IMAC at our club a lot. Many times these guys are low-skill pilots who get into big birds because they can afford it.  Then the other 'checkbook' fliers put them in as judges. </div><div>They should just meet at a restaurant and compare bank balances, LOL !!</div>
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