revell Spad VIII

[stona]

That's coming along nicely. The stretchable line is called E-Z Line. It comes in various colours and at .003 and .006 inch thicknesses. It was originally used by the model railway fraternity for telegraph wires and the like but is now more widely used. Never tried it myself but I gather it stretches to 700% of its original length....Boing!

Cheers

Steve

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here are photos of the build I hope. looks like it sort of worked, I've applied the first coat of Klear sorry for the repeated photos from previous post though, might get it right one day. please give your comments and suggestions as I'm still fairly young to this hobby thanks.

Colin

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[yak face]

coming along nicely colin, well done. The rigging looks great too. I notice from your pics that youve got a bottle of the new formula klear, and you say youve given the model a coat. How did you find using the new stuff? ,it looks like its given a good shine , and plenty of people will be interested to see if its anything like the old stuff. cheers tony

[Guest]

Tony I don't know what the original klear was like, but I am very pleased with this one, it seams to do what you all said the old formula did. What i like about it there is hardly any wastage, I keep a plastic container that the chinese came in with the lid just for this job then pour back excess into the kear bottle. One of the best tips I've got from you chaps. Also thanks for the cellulose tip as well.

Colin

[Guest]

There is also an 'elastic' wire like material that I have seen used for arial wire on aircraft which is stretched and glued and keeps itself taught. Also has the advantage of stretching if you accidentally knock it and springing back to shape. Not sure what it is called or if it is available in the right sort of thickness you would need.

Hope this helps?

This is the stuff you need . I've used it and its great, just use CA to glue it in place.

You can get it off his E-bay site, NB the really thin stuff is more in scale with 1/32 or 1/48.

BOBE'S HOBBY HOUSE-EZ Line

Cheers BB.

[Guest]

here are some photos of the finished spad XIII

colin

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Finished Spad XIII

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Hi All, well I've finished it. This was a joy to build even the rigging was easy to do, Graham the thread was a cotton type supplied with the kit which does not stretch like the E-Z line you was talking about, but it does look like good product for future use. I will try and post some photos but not to good at this yet, so be patient with me please and I hope you like the finished model.

One of the figures looks a bit grubby but he might be a grease monkey.

Colin

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[yak face]

nice job colin, dont worry about the grubby figure ,mine always look like that !! heres to the next model, cheers tony

[Gern]

Hi Colin,

I like the plane a lot. I'm no WWI expert (I'm no expert at anything now I come to think of it!) so I can't comment on the gloss finish on it, but I might suggest giving your figures a coat of matt varnish. That would help make them look more realistic and less 'model' like.

Gern

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Thanks for the tip Gern will need to get some matt varnish and try it out. I use the new Klear product all the time.

colin

[Guest]

Another useless tip is to dip some cotton thread in the paint and dry straight, cut to length and apply with normal cement. this has the affect of firming the thread up making it much better to work with.