Art,
I am trying to at least give the appearance of prototypical construction. I am hoping it will come out well enough to compete with. I've never competed in scale competition before but there is a Scale Masters qualifier and a Dawn Patrol meet held in the area. (or at least there was last year) However my main goal is to build a nice looking, good flying, scale aircraft. I do look forward to seeing how you do somethings on the N.11 for instance the landing gear. The real Nieuports used a cast piece that both the landing gear legs slid into and I'm racking my brain on how to simulate that.
Gian,
If you going to do the Macchi N.11 then you have to go to
http://ark.com/~mdf/nieuport.html. He has a number of factory drawings of the Macchi N.11 and offers them and many other drawings on CD. I wish I had CAD skills, I'm limited to doing my plans on CorelDraw. I look forward to seeing yours started.
Scott