It's done, fini, throw away the box! I'm done too. Anyone really want some karma, rig a DeHavilland or Sopwith!

There are 30 pieces of invisible thread here, inserted or attached to 60 holes or posts. Some may ask why I said building a biplane is a physical exercise, try it. Your body will ache in more places than you ever dreamed from the Japanese body arrangement one has to do to get to certain places for the thread and small parts.

Today, out of the 30 threads attached, I bet I lost 12 to 15. Three broke (one twice) after I had them attached and cut. I had to build two new rigging eyelets. But I persevered, I hung in there, I fought the bear and I clawed the bear more than the bear clawed me. I cussed (loudly), sure the neighbors heard me once.

This Sopwith Strutter represents a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter of No. 3 Wing, RNAS It was delivered to No. 3 Wing in May 1916 and assigned to FSL Raymond Collishaw. On November 10, 1916 Collishaw received his first of 70 victories in this Strutter, downing a Fokker E.III during a raid on Oberndorf.

Caz

looks fantastic , a very fine jod indeed .

Oh my oh my oh my oh my, THAT is a fine job!

Greetings Chas! Nice work! What was your most difficult part of this build?

A very nice job.

That is really nice. I'm building a strutter just now in 72nd and @$%£!HOW MANY HOLES$&^*@
I'd better get that little hand drill out before I start putting wings and that on. Thanks for posting this, it gives me something to aspire to and better to have more images of the rigging.

Thanks all.

Stephen, the most difficult part of the build was that after attaching the top wing (understand all final paint save a little flat over touch ups after rigging was finished) and the outer wing struts, I found that the outer parts of the center "W" struts were too long for their location holes. I had to carefully clip all four and shorten them, then reattach and touch up. Problems with the rigging are always encountered, you build these rags, you know the deal.

Let's see. lemme add 'em up JP (and this is the Eastern Express 1/72 kit BTW, former TOKO mold):

There are

60 #80 holes for smoke-colored invisible thread rigging

9 #80 holes for scratch-build brass eye grommets for rigging

7 #79 holes for 0.017-in wire for control horns

7 #79 holes for use of same wire to aid in attachment of the landing gear, rear landing strut, and vertical and horizontal tail.

Caz

It is the flashback kit I'm making. Thanks for the run down of the holes. Ordered a set of micro drills can't wait it start making a swiss cheese of my kit now.
Wish me luck

Excellent work. Congrats.

The rigging certainly makes a big difference in appearance and yours is fantastic , thanks for sharing Bob