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Wingnut Wings Sopwith Triplane

None of the books I've "read" has not mentioned much about the Tripe other than the German generally avoided them. What particularly struck me was several of them mentioned being within the arch of howitzer shots, and seeing the projectile almost overing at the top of it's arc before falling back to it's target. Said several aircraft were hit because of ground artillery. Oddly they don't seem like they were too worried about "archie".
 
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Well it's starting to look like an aeroplane. :pilot
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I'm rethinking my rigging lines. Got the stretchy line you all suggested. I'm not looping into the control horns, just passing through and the rigidness of the monofilament fishing line I got makes a pretty hard angle into the hole on the control horn. I'm not too far I can't rethink this.
 
I might would use the elastic thread on controls and the rigid stuff on structural rigging. The lines add quite a lot of strength to the model.
 
Yep, pulled all the rigid stuff out and opened up the control holes. I got some nickel wire for the structure wires on the wings. Will use the fishing lines on some other, like the landing gear.
 
RichB said:
WNW used Prym knitting-in elastic thread. PRYM 977 770 is the part number for a 200m spool of transparent thread. It is available from craft and sewing stores, Amazon, etc.

Cheers,
RichB
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I got this thread the other day, started playing with it a bit yesterday. I didn't realize it was flat thread! does the aerodynamic type thread. NEAT! Still getting my mind set to how I'm doing all this. Standby.
 
Coward:)

For the curious, after filtering out the chaff, the RAF wires were made from the new metal, stainless steel. They would have been fairly bright when first installed weathering to a dull silver-grey. The control wires were twisted cable and heavily oiled to keep corrosion from between the strands. They weathered to a darker gunmetal color in use.

Cheers,
RichB
 
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