Feep -
I was not trying to imply any deficiency in construction of your SR eindecker, rather, just trying to elicit some commentary about how the trim, thrustline, etc might have any bearing on the full flying tail surfaces. or vice-versa I guess. I am at this point fairly pessimistic, that my model is going to be squirrely to control, but I figured i'll take my chances anyway and try the full flyin tail just to make things interesting. and yes, I am quite nuts, thankyou!.
are taking 2 existing designs and combining them
I was puzzling over this comment, and then later, when looking at the (poorly-chosen) title of this thread , I realised it might not be clear what this project is. A bit of trivia... according to Windsock Datafile 59, the term "Morane eindecker" was apparently used by the German pilots in reference to the Pfalz monoplane (which they were supposedly none-too fond of) , that was copied under license almost verbatim from the MOrane-Saulnier monoplane. Upper case 'M' and lower case 'e' I guess. In the study of the Pfalz monoplane tail construction, I make frequent reference to both the Fokker and the M-S monoplanes. Until I find evidence proving otherwise, I use the FOkker as the reference to the mechanical arrangement of the elevator. As has been pointed out previously on this thread, tHe Pfalz rudder is designed differently - as Abufletcher pointed out, everthying is "just the way it is for a reason". This is the part that I find most interesting - why is the airplane designed the way it is.
More pictures forthcoming... been working on the front of the model where the spinny-thing goes.