De Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth

Stefan Schacht Very nice, I like the modell

Mirko Römer Just wonderful!

Lochsa_River Hello again, Elias....

Can you answer a rigging question? It seems clear what has to happen with lines coming to and from wings...the wings would be drilled through and repaired...simple enough, the holes are tiny.

But, what do you do on a connection to a fuselage that has no way to get to the other side to pull a line through?

Here is an example:

I-153 WWII China Guomindang AF Fighter (ICM 72076, 1:72)

Note that the wing attachments are simple enough, but the lines then terminate at the fuselage, not another wing.

Do you have a suggestion in that case?

Thanks again for the help!

Choppa Nutta Lovely work

Erik De Smet Drill a hole in the fuselage, glue the rigging line in it and work on from there to the Wings.

Spanjaard actually you do not need to make the holes though the wings... drill a hole that does not go through, dab a tiny bit of CA at the end of the thread, and place it in the hole. works specially well if you use flexible rigging, since you can push it wait a few second for glue to cure and let it go.
you can also cut a tiny piece of wire and glue it to the end of the thread with CA, remove any excess (thread adn/of wire). add glue to the wire and stick it in the hole.

Spanjaard very nice model Elias

Elias Korompilis Thanks all!
@ Lochsa_River: what Eric De Smet said. drill and glue before assembling the fuselage.

Roger Trewenack I did a couple of turns without any throttle changes, then headed back to Duxford. The pilot took over when we got to landing approach & landing - probably a good thing!
Have probably had the controls in 4-5 aircraft, including a tandem glider - Now that was Fun!! Definitely a must try!

Roger Trewenack Hi Wilky, Steve from Ronin Graphics will be re-releasing them via facebook soon (allow a couple of weeks, I guess) His website is: https://roningraphicsaustralia.com/ - I'm gonna search for the Facebook presence.
He's just helped me out with a 1:32 Mirage set of decals, so I'm very happy with his service!!! !;^)}

wilky No worries.
I don't do Facebook so once again I miss out

wilky I'm not going to write here what I think about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.
Suffice to say that I think my data belongs to me not some greedy so and so.
I try and limit how much I'm milked

Roger Trewenack fair enough!! - I'll keep an eye out for you, if you like? I'm in FTG, Vic, by the way!

wilky I'm in Victoria too but the other side of the state.
I couldn't work out where that was so I had to Google it.
Now I know.
I've bought some kits off of you.
I'd appreciate if you can let me know when those decals are available

Roger Trewenack can do - no problems!
What were the kits I sold you? Hope they were to your liking?

wilky Can't remember exactly.
One's with R.A.A.F. decals.

wilky So do I

wilky I went on a joyflight in a Tiger Moth for my fiftieth, thanks to my sister

Ben M That had to be amazing! My dad flew in one in the 1950's

wilky It was and it wasn't.
It was for my head but for my stomach it was hell.
I get motion sickness so every turn made my guts react badly but when flying straight and level I loved it.
My dream is to fly in a Mustang or Spitfire but they aren't in Australia so I decided on the Tiger Moth because every Fighter pilot flew a Tiger Moth

wilky Pity they didn't include R.A.A.F. decals

Dave Flitton Watching!!

Vegard Øksenholt I hope you manage to fix it soon. It's gonna look good after you finish it

Kerry COX Oh, how sweet to hear one of these overhead these days, and it's even nicer to see on here on SM.

It looks so delicate and frail mate, and I too hope you can effect some repairs, as it will be a stunning little bird in the end.

Gordon Sørensen Patience (and glue!) have the struts repaired. Rigging started, but I think I will skip the wires on the fuselage between the wing mounts. Too fiddly and not a lot of room...

Gordon Sørensen Having issues getting a nice paint finish on the engine cowling. One more round of sand and paint.
Finally finished the flying wire rigging. Now just have to see about the control surface wires at the back....

Martien Lourens It all looks good.

Ben STONE What are you using for the rigging Gordon? It's looking good, if anyone has any tips regarding set up of struts on old planes I'd like to hear them. Can't help but think I've fudged them so far.

Ekki I second hat!

Gordon Sørensen Arrrgggghhh! Broke a couple more struts! Decided to just remove the top wing. I have the old tool Tiger in my stash so am going to see if I can use the struts out of that one...

Gordon Sørensen Watching! I have always thought the Jackaroo was an cool aircraft. Surprised nobody makes a rwsin fuselage. Info is hard to comeby, though. Most of the stuff I have collected is from old issues of Flight.

rap451 Just the box itself not the accessories.

Nigel Home New Tool Kit

Dieter Bihlmaier Lovely Moth Petr. Like it!

Hanno Kleinecke Beautiful Moth, lovely colourful scheme, well done !

Choppa Nutta sweet
and the correct colour scheme too

Ekki Like it. Well done.

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos Well done. Lovely painted

Stephan Ryll wow what a beauty

Petr Štěpaník Belatedly thanks for nice comments.

Christian Bruer Excellent work and finish

MRMLA Nice and elegant, Petr!

gorbygould That's beautiful Petr! The rigging looks excellent.

Clifford Keesler AH, another "big one" looking very nice.

Stephan Ryll It's Talking more and more shape

Christian Bruer Yep, but the smaller of the big ones Thank you both Clifford and Stephan

Christian Bruer All, subassemblies are build and ready for further detailing. I will add some Eduard PE and some gaps have to be filled.
The fit is quite good. The wings assembly look odd first, but if everything is fixed correctly it will work out nice at the end. I will close the supports on the lower wing and drill four new holes to fix the stringers.

Cheers, Christian

Stefan Schacht Hi Chris, nice progress. Cheers Stefan

Taarna Eckart Very cool indeed!

Clifford Keesler Looking good.

Christian Bruer Thank you Stefan, Taarna and Clifford

There are some quite nice parts in the small Eduard PE to extra detail the exterior. Oil pipe, supports, covers and hatches, pitot tube and control levers. I forgot to cut of casted details replaced by PE, but it wasn't any problem to remove them from the already assembled model.

Carefulness was necessary drilling 0,3mm holes next to each strut as a location hole for the later rigging. I plan to try a technique used by my mate Axel – high stretched elastic rigging material threaded on a stretched sprue made of a small tube of a Q-Tipp. The stretched sprue will be fixed at the end of each stay and glued into the holes.

Cheers, Christian

Angus MacVicar From the Airfix advent calendar deal..

Julian Herrero aka Yuri Very nice

Greg Baker OMG That is awesome. Do you have a build log? I'm planning on doing the exact same thing and I want to steal all your good ideas.

Uwe Kaeding Not for this one as it is basically straight out of the box - the only additions are the Blue Rider decals and the Modelkasten wire rigging. The colour is Humbrol Trainer Yellow and it is pretty simply weathered with a Florey weathering wash. The kit is really beautifully engineered and its easy to make a nice replica.

Greg Baker It looks great! Have you seen the Blue Rider books? They're chalk full of ideas... I've already (barely) started on the Chipmunk... But the Tiger Moth is high on my list.

Uwe Kaeding Yes, I've got them both in electronic version and the combined hard copy - great references. I've started on the Chipmunk as well. Done the interior and spats for the wheels, Slowly working on rescribing - should really add a WIP gallery.

Greg Baker After I posted I saw the rest of your projects and realized you must've studied those references already. This is super easy, now I'll just follow all the kits and adjustments! I also grabbed an Arado Ar 196 A-3 and am working on the Curtiss Seahawk. I MUST see your WIP gallery... I've barely got the Chipmunk off the sprues and started shaving "rivets". Haven't got near the interior and was wondering how best to handle the wheel spats.

Uwe Kaeding FYI I also just found out today that Unicraft have made a kit of the Hiller UH-4 (the helicopter in Destination Moon). Just ordered it this morning from Fantastic Plastic in the US (fantastic-plastic.com/hiller..icopter-by-unicraft.html)and hope to see it soon.

Harry Houdini bought for a Group Build I did not manage to start due to unexpectedly moving house.

Harry Houdini Gifted to a good mate in Canada

Ekki Beautiful! Love it.

Mike Grant Really nice subject and build

Martyn Fox Nice clean build

Luc B well done Rafael! really like what you have done with the Revell kit.

Steve Wilson Oh!!!...
Very well done
Revell

Mike Grant Coming along nicely Bruce

Maarten Kruizenga holy crap, i remember having one in the 1963 style plastic bag style packaging, when i was about 8................where has the time gone?

Dave Flitton Watching this one!!

Bruce Grayson Thanks for your comments. Time just does march on, Maarten. The wings have been criticized in the past, but for the record, they have the same scale span, sweep and chord as the Matchbox 1:32 scale kit, which I'm using for comparison. The dihedral of the lower wing should be 9 degrees. This should be checked. The upper wing has 4.5 degrees dihedral. The nose is a bit short, and the cowling is short. The width of most of the fuselage should be about 1mm greater. The kit's interplane struts are the right length. That's as far as I've gotten with checking the parts to date. The empennage shapes are a bit off.