First off, I just wanted to chime in with my thoughts on the decision, and further explain what I had envisioned for this new section.
A section on TRF devoted to Scale Design would be made up of two areas:
Scale Discussion:
1) A general discussion area for Scale design, like the other sections here at TRF, but its focus would be scale, its design and even historical reference.
Scale Resources:
2) A section devoted to rockets/missiles and the like. With the amount of sites online that hold data, images and the like, its a large task to locate data, if you don't know where to look. Sure, these sites could go down tomorrow, but at least a general listing could help such an endeavor.
All I ever hear/see here is IF someone is looking for something, they need to do a search through the archive here and read a ton of threads on the off chance that the information was already posted/referred to by a member.
So, why not combine all that into one section..devoted to it.
NOTE: No images, videos or direct download links would be placed in this section...BUT links to those pages/sites could be.
You could have a thread for each type of rocket, with links to sites online and listings for online image sources.
As one example: MANY of you seem to speak of the older Scale/Sport Rocketry magazines, which seemed to have had a large impact on designs and scale design. For me, I do not have access to these old magazines, but it would be nice to know if these are available online for perusal - pdf/image etc.
If I needed information on a particular design, a general listing/sticky would have some of the following sources so you would know what books to buy, or at least where to look. Examples follow:
Rocket's Of The World - Pete Alway
ROTW Supplements 1999 - 2003
Boeing's website for Delta 2, 3, and 4
Apogee for Plans
The Nike Site for Nike images and information
Jimz's Site for plans
Yellow Jacket Systems for images, etc.
Needless to say, this would not be an exhaustive listing, but would be a place to start the search for such data.
In any case, I understand the reasons for not adding this section, and I am very disappointed simply because Scale Design is what made this hobby what it is...
Building a scale design of your favorite real world rocket/missile, and marvelling at it at launch.
My sincere thanks to the admin for your consideration and time in dealing with this matter.
The perfect place do discuss Scale model building is in Modelling...Scratch Built. Modeling deals with the way things are built not about launching. Scratch Built has to do with building not from a kit. Thus a perfect place for Scratch Built Scale Rockets. Right? 
