Biplane Rigging Before/After Paint?

After

Give it a Google; there are tons are "how-to's".

Hi Josh.  If you're using EZ Line for your first attempt at rigging (good choice, BTW), I agree with Mike - attach the lines after.  That's how I did my Felixstowe and it worked great even for that monster.

Have fun and show us pics.  It's not as scary as it looks.  Also, I'd suggest getting a bottle of CA accelerator so you can quickly lock the lines in place.  Good luck!

Kind of see there where I drilled the holes through the wing.

Pathetic compared to Chucks Felixstowe, still I loved building this.

I always do my rigging after painting. It is ridiculous to try and mask rigging.  For an attachment point at the fuselage, I drill a small hole with a small drill, like a #70 in  pin vise.  I then dip end of thread into CA puddle and insert in hole.  I do something similar on wings, but it is complicated enough that I don't want to post about that, especially as it is not really appropriate for EZ line (I use regular monofilament, or even sewing, thread) for most rigging).

Definitely after painting. Much easier to touch up paint than to restring a line. I've rigged several 1/72 WW1 planes and use black or colored nylon sewing thread.

In some cases a few decals may need to be applied and sealed before as well.  Good luck and post pics!

Easily my favorite build thus far (ask me again when I get to rigging). No canopy to mask- 30ish parts- why doesn't everyone build these?!

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Added metal on the front panel. Excited to start on decaling.

Looks like good progress, Josh.  When I built the WnW DH-9A I took a sequence of photos of how I approached the rigging, using EZLine and small plastic tubing, also some similar line WnW sells for rigging for the streamline wires.  The sequence starts on this page of my website:

http://www.yolo.net/%7Ejeaton/mymodels/dh9a/1dh9a/0391dh9a.html

Progress has been made, I'm ready to try my hand at rigging- thanks for all the words of wisdom. Side note- I've been less than impressed by the decals from this kit- I can't remember having the difficulty anywhere else that I've had with these.

I've used string and wire for rigging. For the string I pulled it through a piece of wax and when paint hit the string it just rolled off. Wire is easier because most paints will stick to metal without issue.