Dan, if you goto the WWI section, and take a good look around, you'll notice that a lot of the European WWI combat models are built-up..that's a load of work, IMHO, for a combat bird, but they also use a lot of built-up balsa in some of their WWII planes..guess it's just what your comfortable building/repairing.

JP Morere and I both followed the original WWI thread some years ago. I started work on a combo coro/foam D-VII..even drew up a full set of plans, and got the fuse/tail mostly built. Right now we're trying to keep interest in WWII, but that sure looks like a lot of fun..

Cash