Teamski said:Nice job! How did you do the rigging?
-Ski
The rigging is done with tungsten steel wire, .009 diameter. I figure when trying to simulate wire, what better to use than real wire, right? I buy my wire from www.smallparts.com Tungsten comes in 30 & 60 inch lenghts, to the tune of about $2.25 a piece for the 30 inch variety. It can be as small as .005, I think that's as thin as they make it. I use .005 on my 1:72 scale subjects.
Yeah, it's a tad expensive. But I love the results. A stock of tungsten, a geometry compass/divider to measure runs, and some CA glue to attach the runs and you're there!
I measure runs with the compass/divider, and place it next to a length of tungsten on my cutting mat and crimp the tungsten with a #17 blade, then cut the wire with wire cutters.
Stainless steel wire is also readily available, but tungsten is not quite as silvery/shiny ~ which is why I prefer to use it versus stainless.
And lastly, thank you everyone for being so complimentary! I am really getting into the paper kits, and this site is a intergral reason why.
Be good and stay well.~ Craig