Classic British Flight Sim

Rigging!!!! Try old dentists drills, cadge them for free and use hand power. Combine those with various thicknesses of fine green nylon fishing line.

Some old modellers used to melt plastic sprue over a candle while gently pulling each end of the sprue to achieve the desired thickness. You could the glue those rigging wires in position.

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24 Apr 2020, 21:57

Rigging!!!! Try old dentists drills, cadge them for free and use hand power. Combine those with various thicknesses of fine green nylon fishing line.

Some old modellers used to melt plastic sprue over a candle while gently pulling each end of the sprue to achieve the desired thickness. You could the glue those rigging wires in position.

Dentist drills for free! The fine ones from hobby shops are pretty pricey. I agree, hand power must be used, or the polystyrene will melt.
I fall into the "old modellers" category, I used to do that to make thin bits, but any rigging was fine thread. Now, I have fishing line in the bits box; haven't built in decades, but I have a heap of kits in the "to do" shed.

As arranged, we now have photos from Allan's extensive collection:
Allan's Shed

AMX-13 & M3 Stuart (Honey)

Bradley

Some of my collection

Grant

Panzer 'LUCHS' 1 1/6 scale

Routemaster Bus 1/12 scale

Sherman "Easy Eight"

Ketterkrad 1/9 scale

Tanks for the pictures Mike. Very nice.

Thankyou for posting them for me Mike, much appreciated.




Allan