All interesting ideas. Again unless you're talking about AT LEAST 1/4 scale and probably larger I don't think actually reproducing all the functional metal brackets would be realistic for a flying vs. static model. And you're talking to the king of unrealistic builders here!

Here are a couple of must see sites. The first is Donnie's build of the Jenny over on rcscalebuilder where all mysteries (well most of them) will be revealed! The second is Achim's ongoing documentation of his full scale flying replica of the DVII. It's a treasure trove of info on small metal bits.

http://www.rcscalebuilder.com/forum/...005&PN=1&TPN=4

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/sh...&page=67&pp=10


Do you have particular project in mind?