RIGGING AND WEATHERING
Now on the home stretch, and it
was time for rigging. For this I used
my favourite method of cutting
0.3 mm steel wire into sections
of the correct length, then gluing
them into place with superglue,
using images from the Internet
as a guide. For the control wires, I
used elastic rigging thread from
Ushi vander Rosten, which was
painted silver using a felt tip pen.
Commercial planes are usually
kept quite clean, so I added only
a tiny bit of weathering. A pin
wash of a diluted mix of black
and red brown enamels was
added to the moving surfaces.
This was followed by dragging
the paint in the direction of theairflow with a clean brush dipped
in white spirit; and I was done.
The final addition to the scene
was a pilot figure, for which I useda resin RFC pilot from Gunthwaite
Miniatures. Now where do I find
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