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I fighterbomber of the WW1, build more than 5000 times, it is time to build one for my collection

Roden F.2B with Sunbeam Arab Engine

Beautiful work!!!

Looking great!

The rigging looks to be very complicated in this Bristol

- Kari

Beautiful kit indeed! Well done, Cherrylock!

KSaarni wrote:Looking great!

The rigging looks to be very complicated in this Bristol

- Kari

thanks for the kind words

Kari, you are right, there are easyer riggings, but it is done in 3 eavenings, so it i ok for me, Roden has no riggingplan include so I have to search and find the Eduard plan.

here are pictures from rigging (day one)

Wouh, thanks for the pictures! And indeed, it looks even more complicated now!

So you do the rigging _during_ the build ?

I am not yet even a beginner, when it comes to rigging, but I have always thought the rigging is done as the very last moment, at least after paintwork.
But clearly this is not the case, one learns every day something new! :-)

- Kari

on the Gotha WIP I will show more or less all technics I use to build this planes, Kari rigging looks real complex but it easy, drill all fix points and fix the wood pieces, than us a long wire and start sawing, take clothespin at both ends for tention the wire, the bond the wire with superglue, cut and end grind the unused part of wire..finished. Easy and fast, try it..

Thanks for the quick-instructions! Appreciated, and yes I should try.. and eventually I will...
Looking very much forward to your Gotha build! Magnificent plane!


- Kari

I don't know how you do it but you make it look so damn easy to do. I've got a 1/32 scale Sopwith Camel kit in my stash and I'm scared to try rigging. Although the instructions for that kit looks simple enough. Just not sure of using the thread supplied with the kit would be realistic enough - let alone be a dust magnet over time on display.

I am also a little bit scared, but then I was thinking.. I should buy the cheapest bi-plane only to test rigging on. Nothing else, no painting etc, just rigging rigging rigging... and then when I feel comfortable with it, I would build a "real" one...

- Kari