Rigging Biplanes

wow.......great thread phil
a'hm gonna keep an eye on this one.....
i've only used stretched sprue myselves......and i've really not had that much trouble with it....but, i'd love to learn at least one alternative......



don't know if there's a web site for this but, check out this book by
George Lee, John Alcorn & Peter Cooke called
ScratchBuilt: A celebration of the Static Scale Airplane Modeller's Craft (Copywright 1993)
Schiffer Military/ Aviation History
has a Keystone B4A on the cover......
ISBN 0-88740-417-0

This topic comes up from time to time. See this thread:

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18749

Here's what I posted there:

Here are two approaches to rigging. The "drilling holes and using monofilament" method seems to be favored by a lot of folks. I've used stretched sprue to rig a 1/144 scale Moraine Bullet. It looks okay, but out of scale.

Drilling holes and threading monofilament:
http://priswell.com/uggie/Uggie2.htm

Using fuse wire (other types of wire could be used):
http://www.wwimodeler.com/esc/rig.html

More on using monofilament:
http://www.wwi-models.org/misc/rigging.html

Regards,

Mr. Drew: Thanks much for the links. I do very much like the hair drier suggestion for tightening sprue. The candle approach seems even more risky than a cigarette. I'm still interested in wire, but as I build 1/72 only, it seems wire might be to thick for scale. Not that I should worry about scale, I just want it to look right. Thanks again...

-Phil

No problem, Phil.

I'm going to need to try rigging for the first time in a long time with my current model. So, I've been doing a lot of research.

Regards,