RGL

One side done . I finished the rigging with pulling all lines taught and add a drop of CA to the anchor points to secure everything. This part of rigging was much easier, than the nacelles and inner rigging. I had to fabricate new turnbuckle tubes, which is not the most exciting work, but now, I have enough for side number two.
 

 

 

 
Cheers Rob

Et voila!
 

I think that’s my civilians done for now. I’ll obviously have to change some dirt tones later when I place them in a base 

It’s 1500 ks to Rocky from Canberra! No ship will last that trip and your summers are a bit hotter than ours! 
 
for the rest of you, it’s this far! 

Our model show is  every November, I’ve slowly been digging away at having more ships there 

Did you get the RCSubs upgrades? 

I think that’s my civilians done for now. I’ll obviously have to change some dirt tones later when I place them in a base 

I’ve made a start on hand painting the figures. Being civilians I wanted to mix up some colours. One I get my base coat down I’ll give it a clear coat before weathering 

I think that’s my civilians done for now. I’ll obviously have to change some dirt tones later when I place them in a base 

I think that’s my civilians done for now. I’ll obviously have to change some dirt tones later when I place them in a base 

I think that’s my civilians done for now. I’ll obviously have to change some dirt tones later when I place them in a base 

I’ve made a start on hand painting the figures. Being civilians I wanted to mix up some colours. One I get my base coat down I’ll give it a clear coat before weathering 

I think that’s my civilians done for now. I’ll obviously have to change some dirt tones later when I place them in a base 

I think that’s my civilians done for now. I’ll obviously have to change some dirt tones later when I place them in a base 

Excellent painting - weathering  Greg  -  they  are not the   easiest  to get  right  -  you have done a  really good  job mate.
 
OC.

I think that’s my civilians done for now. I’ll obviously have to change some dirt tones later when I place them in a base 

I’ve made a start on hand painting the figures. Being civilians I wanted to mix up some colours. One I get my base coat down I’ll give it a clear coat before weathering 

Today, I pre rigged one wing in about four hours, not too bad. First, I fitted all the lines to the eyelets, like shown above for the entire lower wing. Then I added the struts, where the inner ones had eyelets in their connecting stubs, which were also pre fitted with fishing line. With a pulling test, I made sure, all connections were ok. This is a step, where you want to make proper preparations, as mounting on the second side, the upper wing is more difficult, due to space limitations.
I also made sure, that all the struts fit completely into the wing holes.



In the next step, I pushed the lower wing onto it´s connecting tab, but still without glue and carefully slid the upper wing onto it´s tab, without breaking the struts. When everything aligned correctly, I glued the wings and upper strut connections in place. Luckily the fit is very good. Then I turned the AEG onto it´s upper wing and made the same loop and tubes like before with the upper wing eyelets. This is, where I am now. The fishing line isn´t pulled taut and CA secured for now, as this will be done in one flush, to maintain taut lines in the correct positions throughout.







Cheers Rob

Ok, there was a lot of talk about tubes, loops, eyelets, ... through the last steps of the build, so I thought, it might be helpful to explain my rigging process.

I cut my ´turnbuckles´ from aluminum tube with the inner diameter of 0,3 mm, the outer 0,5 mm with a length of about 3mm. I roll a fresh blade over the tube until it splits.



You don´t want to run into trouble with burr, later when you try to loop the fishing line through in the middle of a fragile spider web, so I use a 0,5 mm drill bit to remove the burr, holding the tube with a reverse action tweezer.



I glued the eyelets into pre drilled holes into the wing, like here around one strut and for the ailerons with CA. I use Gaspatch eyelets for the structural rigging and Bob´s buckles eyelets, which are finer for steering lines. I orientate the eyelets for the easiest possible rigging.


 
Maxima Chameleon fishing line is the weapon of choice, the brownish color looks ok to me and it´s monofilament.



Now it gets serious, using one piece of tube onto the line and pass it through the eyelet.
 


With tweezers, I pick up the end of the thread and bend it back to the tube and fiddle it through the tube for a second pass.



Finally, I apply a drop of CA to near to the eyelet and push the tube onto it, holding the fishing line into it´s designated direction and cut the protruding rest with a scissor.


 
Cheers Rob

I’ve made a start on hand painting the figures. Being civilians I wanted to mix up some colours. One I get my base coat down I’ll give it a clear coat before weathering 

So this is where we’re at; tractor taking Morser 

So black and then brown chipping, and a brown wash 

So today some paint. Base coat down weathering next 

This actually comes with a roof which I won’t use 

Getting some paint in the Fowler