1/350 scale rigging

Depending on the model, I either belay them to s auitably-located piece of etched railing, or to individual chain links CA'd to suitable locations.

Cheers,

Chris.

chris hall wrote:

Hi S, the instruction sheets for the Revell Germany 1/350 Bismarck include pretty comprehensive rigging diagrams in stages 101 - 104. You can download them here: http://www.revell.de/manual/05040.PDF If you look, you'll see that there isn't a huge amount of work to do. As to rigging materials, there are several opinions, but here's what works for me. I use 2lb-breaking strain fishng line, which is nice and thin, and easy to work with. You can tie it to the yards and masts, and reinforce the knot with a drop of CA. If you need to belay it to a deck, or part of the superstructure, you can get some fine model ship anchor chain, cut off some individual links, and CA them to the deck or whatever. Then you can pass the line or stay through the link, and tie it off. You can also use lycra rigging thread, which is arguably better, because it's self-tensioning, but I understand that it's dificult to find on your side of the Pond. Here's a picture of a Maquette 1/400 Cruiser Aurora which I built a while back. You can see some chain links used to belay rigging on the fore-deck and around the supestructure. HTH, Cheers, Chris.

On the subject of rigging. I was wondering where the lines that go down from the main mast to the flag baskets go? Do you drill holes somewhere to attach them? There seems to be no place where you can tie them up. Thanks

Hi S,

the instruction sheets for the Revell Germany 1/350 Bismarck include pretty comprehensive rigging diagrams in stages 101 - 104. You can download them here:

http://www.revell.de/manual/05040.PDF

If you look, you'll see that there isn't a huge amount of work to do.

As to rigging materials, there are several opinions, but here's what works for me. I use 2lb-breaking strain fishng line, which is nice and thin, and easy to work with. You can tie it to the yards and masts, and reinforce the knot with a drop of CA. If you need to belay it to a deck, or part of the superstructure, you can get some fine model ship anchor chain, cut off some individual links, and CA them to the deck or whatever. Then you can pass the line or stay through the link, and tie it off. You can also use lycra rigging thread, which is arguably better, because it's self-tensioning, but I understand that it's dificult to find on your side of the Pond.

Here's a picture of a Maquette 1/400 Cruiser Aurora which I built a while back. You can see some chain links used to belay rigging on the fore-deck and around the supestructure.

HTH,

Cheers,

Chris.