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

[Guest]

Feeling really chuffed with myself after a first attempt at starting to rig the little Airfix Albatros DVa with wire I took a photo. Only to find that when I looked at the photo I saw that one of the wires was copper and not steel. How come that during sticking all those little bits of wire in I never noticed one of them was copper. I think we will call it a front line field repair.

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[Guest]

Oh my God!!

That's I call patience Barry....

In my opinion....

Ever has to be mistakes.....if not the modelling has been a very bored "thing"....

 

[Guest]

Personally, I have a laterality problem. I confuse opposites. I don't mean to, but when giving driving directions, even if I know we have to make a left turn, the first thing I will say is turn right , and then very, very quickly have to correct myself.

It can make model building a challenge, but it's a small handicap that I must work to overcome. It's also the main reason why I do not drive or have a pilot's license. I don't trust myself.

 

[papa 695]

You get so engrossed into what your doing you wouldn't know if it was sky blue with pink dots Barry. But easily fixed just paint that one steel when done.

By the way it looks like my fishing rod the last time I went fishing

Looking good so far Barry

 

[Gern]

Personally, I have a laterality problem. I confuse opposites. I don't mean to, but when giving driving directions, even if I know we have to make a left turn, the first thing I will say is turn right , and then very, very quickly have to correct myself.It can make model building a challenge, but it's a small handicap that I must work to overcome. It's also the main reason why I do not drive or have a pilot's license. I don't trust myself.

You could get yourself a pair of gloves with an 'L' and an 'R' printed on the back!

Gern

 

[Guest]

In the interests of public safety, it's better if I don't

 

[eddiesolo]

If you don't have A: A total modelling disaster. B: A lost part/parts. C: A a bad fit. D: A general cock up. Then you haven't had a good modelling day.

Looks good and your patience must be abound to cope with that amount of stringing. I hope the tensioning goes all to plan.

Si

 

[Dave W]

Don't think Ive ever made a model without making at least one mistake.Done it again on my current Gladiator build.Ive painted the port tailplane colours the wrong way round.Easily rectified though.

 

[Guest]

It's what makes modelling so satisfying, making mistakes then coming up with a good creative and imaginative reason to justify the mistake!!

You could always change the copper wire to steel, or all the steel wires to copper!!

 

[Guest]

Paint it gun metal and it will blend in a little more, you must have the patients of a saint to sit and do that mate.

scott

 

[yak face]

As has been said ,just paint it silver barry, its going to look amazing when its done , I dont envy you tying them all up on the top wing though!! cheers tony

 

[Guest]

Si, you were right to mention the tensioning. As it was all wire with no give I had to put a fair amount of pressure on each wire to keep it tight but as I did one wire, another one would slacken off. After two day s of fiddling around I'm now onto to plan B and using elasticated thread. Still it got rid of the copper wire.

 

[Guest]

Wise Barry the elasticated stuff is good. Used it a lot on rigging but care needed to make sure you only tension it just sufficiently as it can twist pieces of the model.

Laurie

 

[Guest]

Shirring elastic comes in endless colours and is a perfect size for ropes in 1/35, I would imagine it would be OK for rigging aircraft in 1/48 and above.

Its quite a soft elasticity and doesn't put too much pressure on parts its attached to, if you want to solidify it up a bit then you can touch super glue up the length and it will soak it up and become rigid when dry.

 

[Guest]

Leave it,see if anyone notices when you have finished it.

 

[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.