Abufletcher,
I was the same way when the group got together to do the [link=http://www.bealmear.com/dawn_patrol/nieuport_17.htm]1/4 scale Nieuport Project[/link]. While we're all doing diferent markings so no two should be the same (as far as I know), I decided to take it one further and do the lesser known[link=http://www.bealmear.com/dawn_patrol/siemens_schuckart.htm]Siemens Schuckert D1 [/link] varient. Gotta have a "bad guy" to shoot at too.
Actually, one is being done as a captured N17, so I'll have at least a wing man.

I'm like you (and probably most of us), striving to make the next one better that the last one. And that usually involves mastering a new technigue of some kind. We must be nuts to think this is fun, but it is.