That sounds consistent with the way things are here in the US. 1/12 scale was pretty popular in the 1990's with scale combat. I never really got into competition but a lot of the planes were fun to fly. At first there was a lot of variety but it evolved to where the Ta-152 was the only competitive plane and people got bored or just moved to the other combat groups. I built this 109 about 20 years ago. It was pretty but was never successful due to engine issues.