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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Hints and Tips/Questions about modeling => Topic started by: Stuart Malone on September 11, 2018, 07:35:16 AM
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Modelers,
I did some very basic investigation on this topic. I had been using the 'fine' EZ-Line for rigging 1/72nd scale aircraft but it always looked heavy. I then started splitting it into halves or thirds if I could, to lighten it up. It still looked a bit overdone. I then found nichrome wire in very fine gauges. I didn't have much success with it as it's very shiny and I couldn't find an easy solution to dull it up. Just recently, I found Infini rigging line. It's lycra based like EZ-Line but comes in a multitude of sizes over their ship and aero lines. I decided to put together a quick reference for my own memory so I don't use the wrong size in whatever scale I'm working in. I thought others may benefit from this so please see the attached .pdf if you're interested. Again, this is just a generalization to try and get close to scale rigging. I will be trying it out on a 1/72nd scale Voisin to see what it looks like, but I am very slow and a long way from rigging any part of it.
Stuart
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somehow I missed this post first time around, many thanks for your list.
Something I will look into as I tend to go with stetchy line more and more for my 1/48 builds (at least for the Eduard kits, some resin ones need more strenght)
many thanks, Hidde
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Rigger, i missed this the first time around. and the second. thanks for referring us back to it, it's excellent and you've earned your screen name.