Hi All new to this site. Currently building 1/10 scale spitfire IIb using fibreglass/foam. Can anybody tell be how I would attach wings to my model when done? Would I use bolts or bands.... All sorted but this is bugging me!!!

Definitely use bolts (screws) on a spitfire. Rubberbands wouldn't look right on a warbird.

Either way would work, but the most preffered method would be to use nylon bolts. Typically for this setup, you would install 2 wooden dowels into a beefed up leading edge that would fit into 2 holes in the fusleage at the front of the wing saddle. The rear of the wing would then be held in place with a couple of nylon bolts screwed into mounting blocks placed inside the fuselage. Regardless of your preffered method, I would use whatever the plans recommend using assuming that you have plans!

Making that decision when you are done is a terrible idea. Making the assumption we are talking about an RC model then if you bolt you will need a ply late epoxied in some where near the rear of the wing compartment to drll into and this is going to have a big influence on where the servos/pushrods are situated. You need to make a decision before any internal work and installations are done.

Generally there will be one or two dowells inserted and secured into the leading edge of the wing and two matching holes will be drilled into the leading edge fuselage bulk head. The trailing edge will be drilled through to holes drilled into the epoxied plate and the wood tapped with the appropriate thread.

Something will have to reinforce the trailing edge to prevent the wing bolts from colapesing the trailing edge itself.

Generally anymore almost no one bands warbirds although once common like this big vintage corsair model.

To do that you just need some through dowells front and trailing edge in the fuselage running out both sides.

John

Thanks for all your help - Im just about to cast my fuselage in a 'lost foam' technique, so Im glad I asked now.....

Cheers All

WHy not while you're at it "cast" in place one or two cardboard tubes that will allow the Nylon 1/4" bolts to back out so you don't have to cut them later. I use maple blocks tapped for the bolts but use Carpenter's glur to attach them so they will snap in a really hard landing (usually saves the wing . . . or a majority of it).