Greetings to all early aviation modelers. Greetings to all early aviation modelers. Just a bit of a tip to the novice. When adding turnbuckles to biplanes, use only the lower end positions of the bracing and flying wires. The eye and hook method was used in the upper end positions. Why you might ask? The lowest point was the quickest way to adjust wires in the field. Turnbuckles were only used for adjusting the bracing or flying wires. Even at the nationals I have seen well built models with two turnbuckles on each wire and be disregarded for further competition. A quick reference is the NASM book on the Albatros D.Va by Mikesh.



Image from the old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.

Stephen,
Thanks for sharing this usefull information.
Since i have very little knowledge on technical aspects of early airplanes i was oblivious of this.

Cheers
Pedro

Great info ! at 1/16th scale I like Ken Foran's level of detail as I don't think that the safety wire is necessary.

One exception would be the two turnbuckles on the trestle of the early aviation monoplanes like the Fokker Eindeckers. But as the midwing monoplanes were phased out this disappeared as well.