If you ask most modellers, they'll tell you that the biggest factor keeping them from building biplanes is the rigging. This article provides a simple method for rigging nearly any model.

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Hi Jessica
Great "How to" this will be put to good use.

Nice one Jessie

A great How-To. You've inspired me to give it a try in my next attempt at rigging.

All the best

Rowan

Jessica, thanks for the step by step on how to rig a bi-plane. You make it sound almost fool proof.
Joel

This new rigging material has received enthusiastic reviews.

http://www.uschivdr.com/products/rigging/

5 min how to video at the bottom.

Thanks for posting this tutorial. I'll have to give it a go, probably on something larger than my usual 1/72 bipes. Just till I get the knack with it.

Nice "How to" I just joined the forums and because of the tips and tricks I have read online here. BTW- I actually just did my first WWI bi-plane and used a method very similar to this but minus the tube or insulation. I cannot wait to try that part of it to make it look even better.

Hi Jessica, Is the aircraft a DH.4 variant? Thanks for the rigging tips. Ric

Hi Jeff,

Welcome to Aeroscale! I hope you enjoy your stay

Ric, the model posing for those pictures is Roden's DH-4a airliner which I built for our recently concluded de Havilland campaign.

Another excellent How-To article! Thank you!

Hi Jessie. Where do you get your micro tubing? Micro Mark doesn't have any (but they have tools for cutting it - go figure!), and when I Google it I get a lot of irrigation tubing. I also tried stretching tubing but it's a little haphazard. From each stretch I get only 2 or 3 good pieces before the diameters become too big, or too narrow.

As I mentioned in the article, I got mine from salvaging scrap from an old workplace but here's only one potential supplier.

I took a look at their list and they have a bewildering array of sizes, all in US measurements. I know the higher the number = smaller size. What size would you recommend for 1/48 using EZ-line?

The best way to determine that is to lay two pieces of EZ line together and measure them. Remember that you have to get the line through the tube, double it around the anchor point and back through the tube so it has to fit in there twice

Thanks

This guide has come at a good time since I've got an Airfix Tiger Moth waiting in the wings. Will give rigging a go with it

http://www.gaspatchmodels.com/products/metal-turnbuckles-32.html
Anybody ever use these yet? Comes in both 1/48 and 1/32 in a variety of types.

Jessica,

Thank you! Most informative and inspiring. No more stretched sprue nor thread for me. (Although my Life-Like Gladiator was saved from damage after a careless girlfriend dropped it due to rigging it with a single continuous piece of thread!)

Thanks for this!
I have a DH2 in the stash I've be getting the itch to start.

Thanks Jessie,

A very informative and useful feature.
Will be of use when the time comes.

Cheers


Chris

Hi Jessie. Does a rigging cable have a turnbuckle and anchor point at both ends, or just anchor and turnbuckle at the bottom end, and anchor only at the upper end?

The answer to that is "It depends". Your best bet is to find clear pictures of your subject so you can see whether they do or not.