Perhaps I should back up just a little bit, and paint a little more of the picture of why I'm here. I have created a piece of hardware that will allow oneself to fly. This is not new, it has been done by many individuals before me, using various means to achieve flight. What is novel about my approach is that I would like to start forming a community around my design. In my mind, the community would help with things like the modeling, parts substitution research, finite element analysis of the basic structure, testing etc. In return they would be, well, a productive part of the community. I am basing this project loosely on what is being done in the embedded microcontroller community; http://www.arduino.cc/ whereby anyone has available to them what is needed to create an embedded programmable microcontroller. For example, they can download the mask and create their own circuit boards if they wished to do so. There exists commercial entities within that community (http://www.adafruit.com/) that sells pre-printed circuit boards and component kits. That is precisely the relationship I would like to have with this project. I would like to be the kit supplier. It is very important to me for various reasons that the plans be available to anyone that wants to use them. I would like the 'wisdom of the crowd' to have an influence on the design as it morphs and matures. This really makes little sense if I end up doing the whole thing. I have already completed the design and construction of what I expect will be a flyable prototype. I realize that anyone that wants to copy my design and build their own is going to do so with or without my consent. I would rather them have actual plans in the hope that if they make some incremental improvement, we can incorporate that into the on-going design. I am capable of learning the SketchUp tool, but at this point I would really like to turn this portion over to someone else. I feel my time would be better spent writing use cases and doing actual testing of the prototype. That why I am seeking a recruit; so I won't have to learn everything from the ground up. I've never never reached out for help like this before, its my nature to try to do everything myself. I really want to try to let someone else contribute. Since I've never really asked for help before, I am sure I'm probably not doing it right. I don't even have a good idea in my head HOW this person or persons will create the models. That is also an area where I am looking for advice. Where do we start? What should be the first piece of the craft that gets modeled? Should I take pictures, or just try to describe it? Will video work? Is this forum the best place to work from, or should we use another mechanism to collaborate? I think whoever steps up to help stands to gain a lot of knowledge that they otherwise wouldn't, beyond that I cannot promise anything. Mike