Aaaagh! Why don't we notice mistakes earlier...

[Guest]

Too late Harry, spent 3 hours yesterday evening sewing it all together. Quite pleased with the result, only made one mistake that I can see so far with the port wingtip strand (went the wrong way around the interplane strut). I'm not sure if the stuff I used was this invisible mending thread that is talked about. I used what the wife uses in knitting. Its called knitting in thread and is knitted in with the wool for cuffs to give them a bit of elasticity. Now I'm supergluing all the holes . Anyway a couple of pictures.

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[flyjoe180]

Very good work Bari, this is something I would like to try soon (rigging that is).

[Guest]

Thanks for the comment. In fact I was surprised how easy it was. The hardest part was attaching the thread to the very thin bit of wire I used as a needle. As you can see from the photo what I did was drill holes in all the attachment points, these were drilled all the way through the parts and then I sewed between the holes with as long a thread as needed to cover as many of the wire positions as I could I started by threading through the upper nose position with equal lengths of thread showing on both sides. Then starting out to the port wing with this first thread it did all the wires with the exception of the upper starboard nose to interplane strut and the aileron and wingtip wires on that side. I used a 0.4mm drill mainly because my eyes couldn't see a smaller hole properly. I am now in the process of filling all the holes with super glue then I can trim the threads where I have gone from hole to hole and sand things down. This is the first bit of rigging I have done so hopefully it will work out OK. quite a bit of time was spent in working out the route for the thread to get as much of it done in one length as possible. When I've finished I'll put a couple of photos in the completed aircraft section.

[Dave W]

Looks good Barry.Be careful with the superglue though.Im going to get one of those 'Touch n flow' applicator things when I go to the Telford show.That way I can place tiny amounts of glue on the model without any accidents .Im going to try the elastic on my next biplane build.Will get the kniting in stuff.Saw the EZ line at Newark show.£12 for a smal spool of the stuff!.

[Guest]

Hi Dave, check when you get the elastic thread, the stuff I 'borrowed' seemed to have little flecks of something (rubber ) sticking to the thread that I had to strip off before using it, I just ran a length between finger and thumbnail but you have to be gentle as it snaps if you apply too much pressure. Good idea about the touch n flow applicator, I have used a needle with the top of the eye cut off and its not that accurate, although elderly hands don't help.