Hi Kevin and the rest of you. My name is Ed and I'm from Sunny Newbury Park (really Shangrila because it's so beautiful here), CA. I'm in the final stages of building a Proctor 1/4 scale Fokker D.VII and chose to emulate Rudolph Stark's "Lilac" of Jasta 35b, p. 42 of Anthology 2. I am powering it with the Laser 300V twin engine with a FEMA onboard starter. The fuse and all of its components are complete and both wing structures are completed also. I just finished covering the lower wing with Glenn Torrances' lozenge linen fabric as I did the fuse (multi coats of dope to follow when it's warm) and am in the process of doing the same thing now with the top wing.

I has really been an enjoyable project, while very clearly a labor of love, but I won't tell you how many years I have been working on it. I have taken 200+ pics so far of the construction so that I will have its build documented in the event that I will want to compete with it in the Scale Masters event. You will want to take a lot of pics along the way also and don't worry about taking too many. You can always get rid of ones you don't want.

When I finish this baby and successfully fly it (it HAS to fly - otherwise it will just be a "model airplane" that finds its way hanging from a ceiling somewhere) I would like to start a thread of my own just to show its stages of development. I don't want to interfere with your thread here, because this is YOUR project, but if you would like to see pics of where I'm at right now, I would like to share them with you. You can PM me with your email address and I can email them to you. Otherwise, I could show them right here for you as well as for any of your interested viewers. It would give you kind of an idea of what you're shooting for. I have been greatly encouraged by many other's efforts all along the way. I think we need some of that just to keep going, because there is a lot of work to this - especially a "museum piece" like the one you're building.

Ed