O.K. I need to rig some 30’s era airplanes and so what’s the “easy” way to do a good looking wire rigging job?
Whats the way to do a “really awesome, U.S. nationals winning” job?
What materials do we like? Brass wire? Fishing line? Re-bar?(no,no just jokin"[(-D]). The wire rigging has for some reason always been a thing that fouls me up, and I want to “up my game” in this area. Let me pick your brains…[bow]
G.L.
Go to the sewing thread department of your local fabric store and pick up a spool of clear, universal thread. It is like mono filament fishing line only much thinner. Some people might want to paint it after it is place.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
I second the recommendation for the thread that Yardbird mentioned, except that in the fabric stores I’ve been to, it’s called “invisible thread.” I also find the smoke-colored thread looks a bit better than the clear thread.
Here are three 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://wwi.priswell.com/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
And even moreon using monofilament (with photos):
http://www.ecs.gannon.edu/frezza/WWI/Rigging1-72WWIAircraft.htm
Some folks used stretched sprue. They measure the distance, snip to that size, and glue the stretched sprue in there. My only problem with that method is streching the sprue to an even thickness.
Regards,
I use streched sprue. It works nice.
I’ve have tried fishing line, but it just didn’t work. It wouldn’t stick even with CA glue.