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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1305 on: November 23, 2016, 08:35:43 AM »
Did you pre drill the holes for the rigging wire or have you drilled after completing the model?

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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1306 on: November 23, 2016, 09:28:37 AM »
Seem to remember somebody telling me that some of the wires should be double. Not always the case then.
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1307 on: November 23, 2016, 11:59:00 AM »
I have not finished yet, I am about to remove all the rigging, it looks too clunky to me, I will go for something thinner.
Dave

ps. There are only a couple of double rigged bits on this version as far as I can tell.
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1308 on: November 23, 2016, 11:59:56 AM »
Did you pre drill the holes for the rigging wire or have you drilled after completing the model?
I have not drilled any holes, surface mounting I am afraid.
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« Reply #1309 on: November 23, 2016, 01:17:04 PM »
I use 0,2mm single filament fishing line for my biplanes, but there is a lot of pre drilling required and the paint job on the top wing has to be done after the rigging is pulled through and tensioned. It is a lot of bother but I feel that the results are worth it.

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« Reply #1310 on: November 23, 2016, 01:39:47 PM »
That would be a better method but it never seems to work for me.

Well, I have been doing a bit of research and the actual wires were somewhere between 4mm and 8mm in diameter.
In 1/48 this scales out at 0.083 - 0.16.
My wire was just at the top end of the range and so may have been ok for landing wires and so on(0.16), I suppose I might have got away with it.
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« Reply #1311 on: November 23, 2016, 04:33:01 PM »
There are as many ways to rig a biplane as there are biplanes. All are right, it is a matter of personal taste. As long as the Mk1 eyeball says ist ok then all is good!

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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1312 on: November 24, 2016, 01:33:35 PM »
Re-rigging in progress, this looks better to me.
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« Reply #1313 on: November 24, 2016, 03:46:15 PM »
I agree, what have you used this time?

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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1314 on: November 24, 2016, 05:52:13 PM »
Very thin wire.
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1315 on: November 24, 2016, 06:19:33 PM »
Nice one Cyril!

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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1316 on: November 24, 2016, 06:40:49 PM »
That looks spot on to me.

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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1317 on: November 25, 2016, 08:20:19 AM »
Splendid!
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1318 on: November 25, 2016, 11:47:50 AM »
Just about finished.
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1319 on: November 26, 2016, 06:27:34 PM »
Very nice Zak. (note to self; I must get back to biplanes)