Yet another rigging question

[Epee]

Thanks for all the advice on drilling rigging holes. Of course one answer leads to another question. How do you rig items that are too fragile to have holes drilled into them like DH-2 tail booms and Fokker E-3 landing gear? 1/72 we're talking about here, te-iny stuff!

[John Masters]

Try a mix of drilled rigging where you can and stretched sprue when you can't drill. Sprue works great, you can measure it using a pair of dividers and it replicates the necessary tension. I just glue it with CA.

Salut!
John

[Brad]

Build bigger aircraft.

[StephenLawson]

The sequence will usually be, anchor one end in the fuselage , wrap the other end near the strut juncture it leads to and tack inplace with glue, add weight on wrapped end til dry and cut.

[GregorySharp]

Are some people happy with NO rigging? I mean, how many people skip the rigging? When Eduard shows off one of thier new kits built, they don't have rigging.

I love a fully rigged, rig. But sometimes, it's a bummer to do.

I second that emotion Gregory! I love W.W. I aircraft but that rigging is always a pain. Unfortunately, most models look naked without it and there are only so many times you can build a DR 1 or a D VII

Still having nightmares about rigging that MB-2,
Brian da Basher

[RAGIII]

I second the recommendation of Stretched sprue for those areas too difficult to drill,
RAGIII

[StephenLawson]

To rig, or not to rig, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous drilling,

Or to take arms against a sea of rigging lines, and by opposing ends to secure, to collapse into deep sleep.

No more, and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural frustrations that flesh is heir to; 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To secure then to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream -- ay, there's the rub,

For in that sleep cause by diligent rigging what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this kit, Must give us pause; there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life: For who would bear the whips and scorns of fellow modelers, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence in the office, and the spurns of non modelers

That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare of rigging kit; who would bear he un rigged kit?

To grunt and swear under a weary life, But that the dread of something after a kit not rigged. The unopened kit from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will.

And makes us rather bear those ills we have then fly a static kit that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.

Thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents contests turn awry

And lose the name of action to do to rig. -- Soft you now the fair Love. Nymph, in thy rigging be all my sins remembered.

Author! Author!

Applauding wildly the Biplane Bard,
Brian da Basher

[John Masters]

Lawson never ceases to amaze me with his artistic accumen. I must admit that I fell asleep the other night running the rigging for my TOKO Snipe in my head, figuring out how to include the inner diagonal bracing lines without stopping. Another quote---

"Is this a monofilament I see before me,
The loose end towards my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee...
I have thee not, yet I see thee still!"

JDC