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General Jimmy Doolittle's RC3-2
- Thread starter Rhino
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Yep! Rigging! I started by making 4 of these:
A teeny bit of ship rigging experience helps here. The Uschi stuff is springy, so I untangle every time it "BOINGS"White paper & good lighting is a MUST!
Insert the point end into the float, I drilled a .070 hole, which is plenty big for this dinky stuff! Ran it thru a similar hole in the wing strut, then doubled back, so I have plenty left to attach to the lower wing. 1 piece, 2 wires!! see?! Pull a bit of tension, then a little dab of CA glue to fix it.
Uschi fine rigging stretches! Lookie!!
Spings right back in place! Handy, but not without it's foibles.
Swipe of a sharp hobby knife, and the left over double-back is GONE!!
Git'er done Chris :skipper
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Master at Arms
You guys and your rigging :frantic
Sherman 18
Master at Arms
Rhino
Super Moderator
10 years is long enough to wait. Change of (rigging) plan. Floats will be rigged up with invisible thread to add strength to the struts and floats.
INFINI elastic lycra will be used to rig wings and other non-structural features.
Job 1 is to wrap the ol' RC in a blankie and touch up the mountings for the float struts. Testors Sea Blue enamel was thinned, mixed, and sprayed, but gently. Damp paper towels covered the floats, just in case.
Thanks for looking in!
INFINI elastic lycra will be used to rig wings and other non-structural features.
Job 1 is to wrap the ol' RC in a blankie and touch up the mountings for the float struts. Testors Sea Blue enamel was thinned, mixed, and sprayed, but gently. Damp paper towels covered the floats, just in case.
Thanks for looking in!
Going back and reading this, I'm reminded of your masking tape trick to keep alignment. I could do that on the Korean dozer to align it's S/N I seem to have struggled with. Man there's some good stuff on the website...
Rhino
Super Moderator
Here's what 4 strands of invisible thread looks like. I remembered a bigger scale biplane part I've seen Bob use. I installed faux turnbuckles on the insides of the floats to give me something to glue the lines to. Invisible thread lends less strength to the floats than I hoped it would.
This airplane must be VERY gently handled!
I ran the rest of the rigging in INFINI line. I did the double line trick earlier mentioned on the lines from the top of the wing strut again.
There is still some touch-up to do and flatting glue shinies, but General Jimmy's Curtiss racer is coming along.
I looked at the bottle of Liquid Decal Film sitting on the desk. I know how old the kit decals are. I stored them carefully in a zip-baggie, for just 10 years.
I threw the first decal in the water without coating it.
Oops.
I did spray the decals for the underside of the wing. They went on without much fuss.
Thanks again for looking in!
They look like they snug up nicely! 
Rhino
Super Moderator
Umm.....They look like they snug up nicely!
I painted the rudder.
I was talking about the rigging.
Rhino
Super Moderator
Cigarette smoke snugs invisible thread. It did come out pretty nice. Thanks!
It should have, after waiting just 10 years for me to figger it out!
A decade? Why are you working so fast?
I'll take your decade, and increase it by 50%...
2010 and still slowly working on it. FYI, the DS100 tracks are decaying so I need to replace them:
Scrap Heap Cuban M4A3 (76) HVSS
Counting all my Shermans, I realized I needed seven kits of the 76mm armed M4A3 variant for the five Easy 8 Korean Tigers, Hyzer's TigerII (VVSS), and the Cuban M4A3E8. I only found six kits. The tigers win so they all were allotted and and I ended up needing one more for the Cuban tank...
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Well, it is seven . The last one being the subject of that thread which was cobbled up using leftover parts from the spares bin. I actually wanted to show the new turret made to bring it up to snuff:
I wasn't kidding!
centaur567
Well-known member
Don't forget the three A-20's. And the float plane looks great BTW. Gary S