The mechanical bits are what I find most interesting about the aircraft - and the smell. Have you ever stuck your head inside an old aircraft? Well, the closest I ever got was this SPAD replica - it may not actually be that old but there is a nice blend of presumably fuel oil and varnish smell. For a good time, go around inhaling things! I guess the smells and the wood reminds me of my other boating hobby (my RCU moniker is a reference to my ski-boat)

IT certainly is challenging to replicate all the scale bits, and many times not practical... manipulating the small bits like the 00-80 size fasteners, causes much crying and swearing, probably could not deal with hardware much small than that! However, it's an obsession of mine to find out all the arcane and obscure bits of knowledge about the aircraft, even if I can't build it exactly that way, so I go around on all these e-forums and aska lot of silly questions because you just can't easily find out this stuff. I think it would be very cool to research original source data and draw up plans for aircraft the way Fokker Team-Schorndorff is doing.