ORIGINAL: sensei
What does the rudder in an airplane do?
During a turn, the pilot first uses the ailerons to roll the aircraft towards the direction he wishes to turn. Once the desired bank-angle is achieved, the pilot will use the elevators to maintain altitude, and make minor adjustments with the ailerons to maintain the bank angle.
But then again in a 1:1 DC-3 if you did that you'd be exhausted by the end of the flight. Contrary to your experiance a DC-3 is a rudder airplane. You initiate a turn by pressing in a bunch of rudder in the direction you want to go followed by aileron to increase the bank angle.
The model flyer MUST remember that much of what you are reading from the 1:1 guys is airframe specific. To actually know how your airplane flys you must just go fly your own plane and learn what is correct for that plane.