If you have the proper documentation (published 3 views, photographs etc) and build your model to those documented specs, there is no reason that you would not point well in static judging. You are not in competition with anyone but yourself. You can take a plane that no one remembers, come up with the documentation, build to that documentation, and if it flies within the scale envelope, you could win with it.

You noticed that I stated more than once to find the documentation, and build to it. The worst thing that anyone ever does in scale competition, is to try to make the documentation match a built plane. It won't work. There are too many subtleties to ever find documentation that matches a model. Also, if you produce the published 3 views, and build to that documentation, and come up with a photograph that shows a detail that you incorporated in your model, but the photo shows something different on another part of the plane that is on your 3 view, the photographic documentation will take precedence over the drawing.

It is pretty simple, but it's complicated at the same time. Don't try to outsmart yourself. It happens every year to a contender at the top scale contests. Beautiful models, rotten documentation.

Bill, AMA 4720
WACO Brotherhood #1