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I built this little kit some time ago and got another one to see if I can make it better by enhancing the cockpit with some creative painting.

The red colour is the inside of the doped linnen. I rebuilt a left bottom wing for a Tigermoth last year at work and found some of this red/brown linnen on the aileron bellcrank box....might even have been from WW2

I also added straps from lead foil.
IMG_20180427_182556 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

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IMG_20180505_072613 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
More yellow than in the pix
IMG_20180505_152212 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

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IMG_20180511_062736 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
IMG_20180511_062646 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
IMG_20180511_062622 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

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I battled with EZ line to rig this tiger, and decided to try somthing new.
I was making molds for the Mirage 3 todat and whyle cleaning the brush some of the bristles fell out.....wait a tick I though
The rigging wires on Tigers were all flat rolled steel wires and the bristles are flat...bingo!
IMG_20180513_161437 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

So I cut them to length and glued them on, granted they are a little heavy in scale but any smaller and it looks wrong. As a bonus they were black, just like the painted rigging wires on early tigers

Theuns

Looks good to me.

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I just had a look at the rigging now, it looks to heavy in the pic but when viewed from the front (streamlined) they appear allot thinner . I will rig the Swordfish the same way.

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At work I am busy rigging a PT-13 d Stearman and if I look that the rigging wires on the cabane struts I think the ones on the Tiger looks OK
IMG_20180514_092246 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

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Hey Theuns,



Your Tiger Moth looks fine

I know some armour modellers also use bristles for antenna on their tanks (They don't break as easily when compared to stretched sprue).

Regards,
Stratobat

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'If the literal sense makes good sense, seek no other sense lest you come up with nonsense'

Done at lats. I think I will use the same rigging on my Swordfish aswell.
airfix 1/72 DH-82 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
Airfix 1/72 DH 82 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
Airfix 1/72 DH-82 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
Airfix 1/72 DH-82 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

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What brush was this? Cool idea.

normal hardware store academy or similar paint brush.

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