This has been great fun! I poured a pint and cooked up some popcorn. This thread seems to surface every so often. Really makes for some entertaining reading. Just for the record, I have been to Top Gun, and a few scale qualifiers in the past. I've never competed but would love to some day. I've built many kits (11), arfs (too numerous to count), composite kits (3). I want to start another thread to ask your considered opinions about where all these scale meets are at?! I think this is by far the larger issue at stake for scale competition. I will start the thread and hopefully you more practiced modellers will add your thoughts.

I think the point about ARF's has been made, no?