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Old 17 October 2007, 10:54 PM   #48 (permalink)
Capt. Kit Basher
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Rigging made easy

I've tried all kinds of different methods and materials for rigging from sewing thread to stretched sprue and the easiest I've found by far is guitar strings! You'll need a good pair of needle-nosed pliers to hold onto the string while you cut it, but I think steel guitar strings are great! They stay straight after youo cut them and you can attach them easily with either white glue or CA. I use the high strings for rigging in 1/72 scale. It might not be totally to scale but it looks fine to my Mk. I eyeball. Here's an example of steel guitar string rigging on a recently built "what-if" A1/72 scale Ansaldo "Avanti". The fuselage is an old drop tank and the penny should give you an idea of the scale.

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This method also works for rigging fictitous SPAD Triplanes:

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