Airfix 1/72 Tigermoth

[T. van Vuuren]

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.

Theuns

 

[yak face]

Great looking cockpit theuns , love the belts, cheers tony

 

[flyjoe180]

Grand little kit, look forward to this latest one from your bench Theuns

 

[colin m]

A 1:72 bi-plane. Good effort old chap, and good luck..

 

[T. van Vuuren]

Ta, sofar it went OK, I painted yesterday but it is cold here and the paint will take a few days to cure.It is allot more yellow than in the pix, my cell camera not to good.

Theuns

 

[yak face]

Nice paintwork Theuns ,coming along nicely , cheers tony

 

[flyjoe180]

Looking good Theuns

 

[T. van Vuuren]

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

 

[Steve Jones]

Theuns
Great work on the rigging. It has turned out really well. You must be pleased
Steve

 

[flyjoe180]

Nice use of the bristles Theuns

 

[T. van Vuuren]

Ta, I had a close "scale look" at the PT 13 Stearman I am rigging at work now and I am more happy with the look of the tiger's rigging, from the side it seems heavy but from the front they appear allot thinner, just like full size

Theuns

 

[papa 695]

Just seen this one Theuns , great work