1/700 Aoshima IJN Isokaze destroyer 1945

I don't mess with stretched sprue anymore.  I use either fine fishing line or a high E guitar string.  There's no fumes to worry about. And, for steel warships, the lines are metal, better resembling the real thing.

Bill

Tanker-Builder

Hi Tranduy:

    What I do is find the best sprue and really do some " Hot" stretches. Then let it hang by clothes pins on a Hanger over the closet door. That way over time all the natural tendency to curl is gone. You can get real thin that way. If not, Don's suggestion of .05 Mil Monofilament( fishing line) is good for this. I don't work in this scale unless The only version of what I want is only available in 1/700

 

Rather than fishing line, it is  sold as fly-tying thread.  Found at online suppliers of fisherman's places.  Search by fly-tying thread.

Hi Tranduy:

    What I do is find the best sprue and really do some " Hot" stretches. Then let it hang by clothes pins on a Hanger over the closet door. That way over time all the natural tendency to curl is gone. You can get real thin that way. If not, Don's suggestion of .05 Mil Monofilament( fishing line) is good for this. I don't work in this scale unless The only version of what I want is only available in 1/700

Rigging is one of the hardest tasks in ship modeling. Doing it on a small 700th scale ship makes it even more difficult.  It is hard to find thread of scale size so one trick is to simulate smaller size with color.  Using a medium gray rather than stark black or white (lower contrast) will make the thread look smaller.  Unfortunately it is hard to find gray in really small size.  I often use white monofilament thread and color it with a magic marker.  For a destroyer you should use 5 mil stuff- no thicker than 10 mil.  5 mil is very hard to see, so you need good lighting and vision aid like readers or magnifiers.

Thank you so much, this is really help me a lot my friend

Tranduy,

  Stretched Sprue works but there is a learning curve that comes with 1st degree burns.

Jim Baumann seems to be my hero when it comes to that technique.

Check this out:

http://shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37536

     Nino