Originally Posted by
geezeraviation
It aint rocket science, there are lots of fully rigged biplanes out there and I don't see anyone fooling with their turnbuckles to assemble their aircraft. Maybe you should attend some larger fly ins or a dawn patrol event somewhere and get there early on the first day and observe how guys are putting the models together and ask some questions. I have a half a dozen rigged biplanes from 1/6 to 1/3 scale and none take over 25 minutes to assemble. The rigging runs from quite scale to , well, not so much but none of them look bad or do they appear to be rigged with RC stock hardware.
Doc
That was sort of the point of this thread, seeing as I'm not likely to be able to attend any Dawn Patrols from here in Japan. What ARE the tricks? I'm getting close to a point of "no return" however with my CI. I'm firmly committed to the scale UC brackets and somehow connecting the cables to them in a way that doesn't distract from the scale effect. For example, I might be satisfied with a turnbuckle that's permanently attached to the bracket with the cable being attachable/removable from the outboard end of the turnbuckle.
But, yeah, I could really use some photos. So far, I've haven't seen anything I could use here.