| Guillows Pfalz D-III by David Duckett |
| kenm94591 | As usual beautiful. Now we need a tutorial on rigging. |
| biplane guy | Sweet! |
| David Duckett | Sew, a needle pulling thread🎶 |
| kenm94591 | Not sure how that happens. I assume you glue to the fuselage first as it is wood and then pass the needle through the silkspan wing and glue to the underside. Touch of paint maybe on points where the needle came out. |
| David Duckett | Except for the outermost thread, all the thread is run through the strut by using the needle held by a pair of hemostats and then through the next strut. A small touch of CA away from the exit hole on the thread will hold it in place. Real planes are not rigged this way at all. The only place the thread passes through the wing is in the outermost position and that just happens to come out in the black cross on the bottom. Plans normally detail the rigging sequence. |
| kenm94591 | I am building the Dumas P-26 infilled and Dumas does not show any rigging...lol.
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| heywooood | Dumas doesn’t provide rigging diagrams or include materials like thread etc. for the purpose. On the Dumas kits I have built I used reference books from the library and internet images as guides. Also worth noting is that Dumas provides propellers, shaft, bearing and wheels from Guillow - they seem to buy the bagged parts in bulk from them instead of making their own. |
| bobgood | Excellent from DD - shame about the depth of field! |
| bobgood | ...where are all my model building friends these days? Getting lonely in here..... |
