I didn't do a build thread, because there are so many excellent D.VII threads, both on RCSB and elsewhere. Particularly helpful was Teus' RCSB build thread (https://www.rcscalebuilder.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16 539&PN=1&TPN=1).  Regarding construction and scale detail, I have very little to add. 

I based my model on the Wilhelm Leusch D.VII, which had a dragon painted on the fuse sides.  The dragon was taken from a WWI German advertisement for a company selling automotive ignition parts:

  

          

                             

We have absolutely no idea what the fuse colors were;  there no in-print descriptions of the colors, and it is impossible to guess the original colors from the two poor quality probably orthochromatic B&W prints that have survived.    Most illustrations (all speculative!) give the colors as yellow and blue.  I have followed the example of the WingNuts model of this plane:

Power is electric.  I used a Hacker Q100-8M motor with an MasterSPIN 200 Pro OPTO ESC and a pair of two 6S 10,000 mAh LiPo's in series.  I got the 32-10 laminated propeller from Goetz Vogelsang.  Flight time with this set-up is about 7 minutes.

The text graphics are dry-transfers from Nigel at Flightline Graphics.  The dragons were painted in oil by an artist friend.  You will note that my dragons are gray, while in the photo they appear to be white.  I chose to make them gray for a couple of reasons -- the dragon is gray in the advertisement, and one can't  be sure of the original colors in the 1918 photographs. Also -- I will not compete with this model, so I'm not concerned about how a judge would interpret the dragon color.   I sent a photo of my dragons to Callie, in case someone wants her to make one with her vinyl graphics set-up.  

The pilot is a 3D print, which I painted.

Wings are covered with Glenn's lozenge linen, fuse and tail with BUSA OraTex. The color paint is HomeDepot latex, brushed not sprayed.

About half the cockpit instruments were supplied with the GTM kit; the rest I made from scratch.

Here are a few pictures (in the first few photos, I hadn't yet installed the flare gun on the upper wing):

                      

 

                       

 

  

                             

I added a tailwheel to the skid, because I will sometimes be flying off a paved runway. It is modeled after tailwheel additions to 100% D.VII's, one at Rhinebeck and the other in Kermit Weeks' collection.

                         

The maiden flight was a couple of weeks ago; my friend Stan Johnson was the pilot.  All went well.  

One of our local modelers is a videographer, who has over 300 videos on his YouTube channel (RedBeard Reviews R/C).  He made this video of the flight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK8739eKCP8&t=201s

Thanks to all the RCSB WWI builders; I could not have completed this model without their assistance.

Charlie

The whole plane is amazing, But I have never seen the cool dragon before.. I am not sure if I just haven't paid attention or what?

So many cool amazing details. I really like it..

If only color cameras existed back then. Thanks for posting this.