I have not decided on the paint. There is a German guy who did a nice one on the rcscalebuilders site. It is read and white. I like it. I did not buy any losenge fabric. Mine is all "natural" color. I'll get more decisive on that as I get more excited toward the end of the project. Goering's white D-7 looks nice but, it has probably been done a bunch of times. It might be hard to see. I find that an airplane that visually pops is easiar to fly. The Swiss paint looks easy and would be different. I like to be different. I think the Swiss colors might be easy for me to see against a blue sky. My color vision is slightly sub par.

On the chafing problem........Bow strings use something called "serving". It is another piece of line, wrapped around the main cable very neatly and tight. Black monofiliment is used a lot. It would take a lot of wear to get though 100# mono. Serving is where the arrow nock goes and the end of the string hooks on the limb or cam. Serving is waxed to make it last longer. I have bowstring wax.I was going to bring the control line out the fabric and make some leather patches to feed them through, like real airplanes. Since I have the tools to do that I probably will serve the cabels. Basically, I will be making bowstrings.

The thing that intrigues me is the idea of using a twist to regulate length. How simple, strong and light is that? It should look really cool too.