With all due respect to Mr Wester, several of Ed's friends built planes the same size as the Simla about the same time period, but I am aware of only ONE Simla (for sure), ever being built, and it was built by Ed. Les Fruh may or may not have duplicated Ed's Simla....there isn't a good picture of Fruh's model available to my knowledge to compare them.

As I said other versions of a large pattern plane were built by Ed's flying buddies from the Chicago area, (Curt Dimberg, Les Fruh and likely others). While similar because these models were built by a group of friends, these other pilots often put their own distinct features on their models, (different wingspans and overall shapes). In an article entitled "Big Stuff", you can see the Simla and Dimberg's model. There is another view of Dimberg's model in the Ed Kazmirski's Taurus thread, and it looks quite a bit different from the Simla when viewed from a 3/4 angle from the front. There is another photo of Vic Husak's "Cream Puff", which is also the same size as the Simla, but not the same at all.

If Cees can find pictures of others posing with their (stock), Simlas, then I will yield to his facts.