[WWI] Gorilla glue?

[ernest thomas]

Patrick,
First off, what scale do you build? I've used that black colored invisible 
thread to rig 1/72 stuff and it looks fabulous. But I mainly built 1/48 and 
the invisble thread was just too thin for my tastes in that scale. After a 
few years of searching for the perfect, very thin, hard wire, I woke up one 
day realizing the wire I'd been searching for all those years was always 
right at my fingertips, litterally. I started using my old guitar strings, 
which were already black because I never change them unitl they break.
Anyway, the point of all this is that I found rigging with hard wire is so 
much easier(to me) than with monofilaments like invisble thread. And I can 
attach it with white glue without drilling a bunch of holes in my models, 
which then need to be filled and re-touched, always after the decals and 
everthing else is finished. I don't like doing that. Too many chances for me 
to screw up what was almost a really nice model.
So if you build 1/48, give guitar strings a try. Any music store will carry 
E strings in .008 gauge. And you might be able to find .007 or even .006 in 
better music stores. And they're cheap too.
And if you build 1/72, there is a surgical stainless wire available in .005, 
which is about the same as your invisble thread. This stuff is also cheap. 
Comes in tubes of fifty 18" strands for about 2 or 3 U.S. bucks. One tube 
could last a lifetime, unless you build a hundred kits a year like Dennis, 
who we hates.
E.


>From: "Patrick Cook" <festercook at msn.com>
>Reply-To: World War I Modeling Mailing List <wwi at wwi-models.org>
>To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
>Subject: Re: [WWI] Gorilla glue?
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 19:53:54 -0400
>
>Hi Ernest - thanks for the 411 on the glue.
>
>I use invisible sewing thread and super glue for my rigging.  The thread is 
>smoke colored, straight as an arrow, durable and thin.  The only down side 
>is cleaning up the super glue that invariably ends up gathering at the exit 
>point for the thread.
>
>Once I tried to use a piece of thread to drop a small amount of glue *into* 
>the rigging hole only (to see if I could avoid getting glue onto the 
>surface of the model, just into the holes) . . . I tried unsuccessfully 
>TWENTY TIMES on a practice model.  All attempts left some amount of glue on 
>the surface of the model to be cleaned up.  And as usual, the glue does not 
>sand down at the same rate as the surrounding plastic so you get hills and 
>valleys when you are trying to get flat areas.  Using super glue makes it 
>very hard to get wings and other surfaces plained down smooth and flat.
>
>Oh well.
>
>Patrick C.
>Atlanta
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: ernest thomas<mailto:reason108 at hotmail.com>
>   To: wwi at wwi-models.org<mailto:wwi at wwi-models.org>
>   Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:24 PM
>   Subject: Re: [WWI] Gorilla glue?
>
>
>   Patrick,
>   I've never used the stuff personally but my boss has and he really hates 
>it.
>   Says it's a big, EXPANDING sticky mess. Doesn't sound like something I'd
>   want anywhere near my models.
>   What do you use for rigging? I use hard wire, attached with 
>white(Elmers)
>   glue. Dries clear, shrinks as it dries and splooges clean up easily.
>   E.