Heck, I can go to the field any sunny weekend and watch the guys fly the giants and get almost the same variety of maneuvers as at modern pattern contest and many consider the scale planes more appealing than the lines of a pattern ship.
Don't get me wrong, I like the way a 2 meter pattern ship flies, just don't care to compete in turnaround. But take heart, there is a place where you can fly pattern and compete with the old .60 powered Dirty Birdys, Curares, Compensators, Super Kaos, ect. according to the old rules before turnaround. This is SPA.....do a search there is plenty of info on it in this forum.
PilotFrog