The Lurker - 100%. The SE5a is a 7/8 scale replica, and the Albatross is a full-scale reproduction built (to the original specification, apart from some metals) in New Zealand quite a while ago.
7/8ths seems a bit pointless. Why not a full scale replica it wouldn't be much bigger.
Weight, expense and volume wise, it would be - and would need a far bigger engine and prop, I suspect, and that may not have been possible. It may also have had something to do with the limitations of where it was built, but that's just conjecture.
ETA: it turns out that there are very good, well-proven plans available for building this as effectively a kit aircraft, capable of being powered by an 85hp VW engine. The fact that something like 150 of these have been built would mean that getting it certificated to fly would be a great deal easier than a one-off full-scale replica.