by MatthewB » Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:10 pm
I know that you can get fine brass/copper wiring that is as fine as a few thousandths of an inch (roughly a bit thicker than a human hair).
When thinking about rigging my USS San Francisco and HIJMS Nagara, I remembered the wires that I used to struggle with soldering on nano/micro-R/C airplanes (Radio Controlled airplanes with wingspans around 4" or 100mm).
The wire is called "Thermocouple Wire", and is available in sizes from .001" to .064":
http://www.omega.com/pptst/SPIR.html
This is what I plan to use to rig the ships, when I eventually get around to doing so.
The wire would be very close to "in scale" for 1/700, and for 1/350 scale you could get wire that was, in-scale, only �" in diameter (so you could have deck reels that had appropriately sized cables).
If you are a real glutton for punishment, they make wiring for prosthetic cybernetic components (stuff that is used for implanting electrodes to individual synapses locations in the brain) that is as thin as .0001" (and smaller). But it is hideously expansive (something like $10/cm). But if you REALLY wanted to get a �" rope on a 1/700 scale ship, then you would have to go with that stuff (I would have to get a link from one of my ex-professors for the smaller surgical/cybernetics stuff though), as well as sell a kidney or other redundant organ to finance the wire.
MB
I know that you can get fine brass/copper wiring that is as fine as a few thousandths of an inch (roughly a bit thicker than a human hair).
When thinking about rigging my USS San Francisco and HIJMS Nagara, I remembered the wires that I used to struggle with soldering on nano/micro-R/C airplanes (Radio Controlled airplanes with wingspans around 4" or 100mm).
The wire is called "Thermocouple Wire", and is available in sizes from .001" to .064":
http://www.omega.com/pptst/SPIR.html
This is what I plan to use to rig the ships, when I eventually get around to doing so.
The wire would be very close to "in scale" for 1/700, and for 1/350 scale you could get wire that was, in-scale, only �" in diameter (so you could have deck reels that had appropriately sized cables).
If you are a real glutton for punishment, they make wiring for prosthetic cybernetic components (stuff that is used for implanting electrodes to individual synapses locations in the brain) that is as thin as .0001" (and smaller). But it is hideously expansive (something like $10/cm). But if you REALLY wanted to get a �" rope on a 1/700 scale ship, then you would have to go with that stuff (I would have to get a link from one of my ex-professors for the smaller surgical/cybernetics stuff though), as well as sell a kidney or other redundant organ to finance the wire.
MB