ORIGINAL: vertical grimmace
Look at Skyshark RC. They have brought back all of their kits. They just released a new one, an IL2 Stormovic. Looks like a great model. Again, these can be scaled out as much as you would want. These tend to be smaller planes, .60 sized, but that may be what some want. I know ABU, you do not like to see this ever increasing size of models.
Interesting! Skyshark made the only WWII kits I ever considered building! I was looking hard at their Aichi, in part because I wouldn't have to be spending hundreds of additional dollars on retracts. And just when I was about to buy one, they went over to ARF only. [X(] So maybe this is my chance!
By the way, did they also bring back Skyshark Girl!!!
Still, nearly $400 for a 1/9 scale (63" span) model isn't cheap. On the other hand, it looks like a really outstanding kit:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_12..._1/key_/tm.htm