RE: Spad XIII
Abu,
That would be the way to go. A guy down in Oregon has a beautiful 1/4 scale Spad XIII. He said when he first finished it it took him two hours to assemble it at the field! he later, with practice, got that down to one hour. In the end he ended up buying a trailer so he wouldn't have to take it apart for transport anymore.
It will be interesting to see what kind of airfoil it has and the thickness of it. Someday I'll start my Halberstadt DV which(the full-size one) has perhaps an even thinner airfoil than the Spad and almost as many turnbuckles.
Another thing I am looking forward to seeing is how they treat the front end of the fuse with all of those louvers and bumps and the shutters. All that stuff is a lot of work but neccesary(IMHO) to capture the essence of the XIII.
J