Hi! I’m new to FSM forums and don’t really exactly how to chat here.
I’m planning to build a Sopwith Camel and need help w/ the rigging. How to do that? I’ll appreciate any help!
Hi Novim,
Welcome to the forum and bravo for building a WWI plane!
My brother spent a semester in Costa Rica last year and loved it! I didn’t get a chance to visit him, and I’m sorry I couldn’t go.
See if you can go to a fabric stores and find thread called “invisible thread.” It comes in clear and smoked colors. I 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 more on 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,
Thanks a lot!
Hope one day you can visit CR!
See Novim? I told you it would get answered fast! [;)] Good luck to you! And show us pictures when you are done with the model!
que novim…twanis todo…
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Todo OK! pura vida!
Prácticamente nunca uso estos foros. Me interesa compartir con algún tico el gusto por el modelismo. Estoy en jfsaprissa@hotmail.com
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Another site you can look up for rigging is: www.ipmsstockholm.org It has a good “how-to” on the subject.I found it when I was going to rig an SOC-3 Seagull for my Father.Good luck!Hope it helps.[2c]