Hi Matgray86 ,

All of the suggestions of seeking knowledgeable help are 100% right on target and my suggestion beyond that would be that if your going to do the work yourself , get a couple of inexpensive small wood kits of model airplanes and put those together first to get the feel for how to do the wood and cosmetic work . If you have access to the servos , motor or engine and all the other required running gear then great , by all means I'd restore it mechanically too . But if you would be buying the parts and then never flying it due to it's heirloom status then I'd work strictly on the cosmetic and forgo the mechanical and display it minus the expensive but unseen bits like servos , receiver , ESC for motor / fuel tank for engine , and so on . Yes of course I'd mount the propeller with a cowl to look like an actual motor/engine were in there but it would be done as a static display . I just figure for something that's never gonna fly , even if using kinda cheap parts it would be the better side of $100 to mechanically outfit it , I'd go tribute static display model only with it and put the running gear into something that's gonna fly . Finished as a static display only model would also insure no one else would try to fly it too , thus greatly expanding it's possibility for lasting some time rather than risking being crashed .