Maurice Farman MF7 Longhorn 1/72

[IanB]

Impressive! Thanks for the wheel detail, that will be useful.

Ian

[RAGIII]

An outstanding update! Your wheel technique is awesome. The rigging is just gorgeous!
RAGIII

[lcarroll]

Beautiful work LM! The delicate construction features are so well portrayed on the Model, the rigging is perfect, and the overall effect is very impressive. The finished project will be truly spectacular!
Cheers,
Lance

[Dirigible-Al]

This is a real joy to follow LM
Alan.

[radio]

Stunning work LM.
Martin

[Des]

You have performed an awesome job on the rigging, and in 1:72 scale makes it even more impressive. Thank you for your tutorial on making the wheels, simple but very effective and will be usefull to a lot of scratch builders, your wheels turned out great. This model is really starting to look the part now, you have done an incredible job with it.

Des.

[PrzemoL]

Fantastic. I am very much impressed! What a great modelling, LM.

[rhallinger]

It gets better all the time LM!  Outstanding work.

Regards,

Bob

[Old Man]

This is a masterpiece, Sir.

Truly wonderful work.

[ALBATROS1234]

very nice longhorn lonemodeller , looks much bigger.

[IFF1418]

Hello LM,

I have the greatest respect for what you have accomplished. High class scratch building and great craftmanship!

Kind regards
Patrick

[coyotemagic]

Truly sensational work, LM.  This is a very ambitious scratch build and you've done a masterful job of it.
Cheers,
Bud

[WarrenD]

LM, I can only add to the positive comments made already, what wonderful work. I'd like to know how you rigged your booms. I have a 1/72nd DH2 and a Fee in the stash, and the rigging of the booms has me scared. 

Great work sir!

Warren

[Ernie]

Just amazing, LM!   Wonderful talents you are showing.

Cheers,
Ernie

[lone modeller]

LM, I can only add to the positive comments made already, what wonderful work. I'd like to know how you rigged your booms. I have a 1/72nd DH2 and a Fee in the stash, and the rigging of the booms has me scared. 

Warren

Dear Warren,

I am not sure that I can help much with your boom rigging problem except to say that I use rolled copper wire and superglue to rig my models. The wire is rigid so there is no problem with sagging, and I use dividers to measure each line separately. I usually cut the wire slightly over-length and offer the wire to the correct position on the model. Then using the standard Mk 1 eyeball I estimate the amount of wire to be removed - and repeat if necessary. It is surprising how experience hones accuracy. I use the end of a craft knife blade or a sharpened wood tooth-pick to place a tiny drop of glue on the model at both ends of where the wire is to be fixed, and then place the wire into position. The glue usually bonds the wire instantly. Getting the wires to sit into the corners of the booms (as per the real thing) is almost impossible so I allow the tiniest of overlap on to the boom or strut and if necessary touch in with paint afterwards - it can rarely be seen with the naked eye, although it is visible with a magnifying glass or eye loupe (which is what I use). Nobody who has seen my models has ever noticed the joints so far so they must be reasonably good. The disadvantage of using a tooth-pick is that the glue accumulates on the end, necessitating frequent re-sharpening and therefore shortening of the tooth-pick so I do not use them very often - knife blades are easy to clean but the size of the glue drop is more difficult to control. Again with practice this can be largely overcome however. I think that the key is to try out the technique on some test samples and surprise yourself how easy it really is. I have made a number of pushers now and find that rigging booms is actually no more difficult than rigging other parts of the airframe. Just be systematic and leave the inter-boom bracing and anti-drag wires until the remainder of the rigging is complete, then there is less likelihood of damage.