Well from my uneducated point of view, to be able to see what a Siskin actually looks like and be able to get a good idea of size etc, and to represent the type in a collection would be great. Its internal make up would be irrelevant to me in this regard.
I do obviously undertstand that a properly reconstructed aircraft, as in the Wallace and Flycatcher etc, would be far better but there are nice replicas such as the very accurate appearing, and superbly engineered, Defiant and Balliol projects which do not use an original type construction as I undertsand it.
At the risk of going off topic, if you’re going to do it, why not do it properly?
To answer my own question, it is usually down to cost.
I’m in a rather dangerous place here. Although I have aided various people in their endeavours, I personally have never recreated or restored an aircraft and it would be very rude of me to belittle other people’s hard work.
I’ll put it like this. Unless you use materials as close to the original as you can get and replicate the techniques used, you can usually tell.
Having said that, if you want to recreate a Siskin out of bits of tube and bed sheets…good on you…go for it. Ignore know-it-alls like myself who will grumble about this bit or that bit being ‘not quite right’ when we’ve never tried to recreate anything. Besides we quite enjoy grumbling about such things.
Anne
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