Modelling World War 1

[Kiteman]

Did you pre drill the holes for the rigging wire or have you drilled after completing the model?

[Haddock]

Seem to remember somebody telling me that some of the wires should be double. Not always the case then.
Nice looking model.
Haddock.

[zak]

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.

[zak]

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.

[Kiteman]

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.

[zak]

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.

[Kiteman]

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!

[zak]

Re-rigging in progress, this looks better to me.

[Kiteman]

I agree, what have you used this time?

[zak]

Very thin wire.

[Kiteman]

Nice one Cyril!

[Roger]

That looks spot on to me.

Roger

[Haddock]

Splendid!
Haddock.

[zak]

Just about finished.

[Kiteman]

Very nice Zak. (note to self; I must get back to biplanes)