And aerodynamic wire? Forgetaboutit.... I don't think I've seen anyone actually pull that off. I got some RB PE for the SE5 that may be close.
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Wingnut Wings Sopwith Triplane
- Thread starter moon puppy
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Heavens Eagle
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Yeah, they usually use PE stuff to do it. Thing is there are no real turnbuckles on the late war British aircraft.
paddy
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one mistake i made with my WnW builds is the later war stuff as Paul mentioned often only had a turnbuckle on one end so appears in some pictures not to have them at all
TBH its another of those things you can over think and turn a build into a nightmare so best to do what looks good to you. I have dozens of pictures as above that i took at Hendon and its actually quite hard to find 2 fittings the same, the above are all on the same SE5A which is Triplane era ish. the really confusing thing with aero wires is they twist so some look tapered
and others just look different thicknesses
I got several photos from the RAF Museum. But my focus back then was the Albatros, got some really good photos of those turnbuckels. What I'm planning on doing is just using a sleave of brass tube on most of the bracing wires, maybe a tube and eyelet on some at the control horns.