This is an interesting approach. As an under grad I was an apprentice at Hawker Siddeley and actually skinned parts of a Harrier and Hawk. The skins weren't prestressed nor were they pre drilled. The skin was pressed to be a rough shape using a huge mold. Then the craftsmen took over. The very crude pressed skin was often a compound curve and thus only approximately matched the profile of say a Harrier air intake. A large very bulbous structure. They offered the skin up and noted where it fit well and where it didn't. They they took it to a small roller machine where two if them woukd proceed to add spring ir stretch the skin. When it fit well they woukd very carefully drill some pilot holes to afix it to the frames using rivet hole clamps. They the gradually placed nore and more until the skin fit exactly to the underlying frames. World War two aircraft often used various shims to achieve the shape as they were building si quickly, but the Harrier was built with incredible skill and no bodging!
The only time you'd see oil canning was on say the skin above a Hawk in flight where the fuel inside was pressurized. Eventually a small set might be visible bit it was due to frequent inflation nit a lack of stressing or inaccurate build.
I also view a world War two wing as only a speciously stressed skin. The spars were the wing strength, not the skin per se. They added strength but the spars carry all the main loads. Whereas a Harrier only had a keel for the gear and the rest of the structure is a true monocoque. The wing skins are so thick as to resist any kind if oil canning. They have to survive a 500 knot birdstrike, after all. They're more than a quarter inch thick on the leading edges!
Buy I do admire the ingenuity of this technique, even if in my view it's a bit to uniform and heavy. It's well done but is it to scale? A quarter of an inch is only two pieces of paper in 72 scale! Not much.
