Another spoked wheels tutorial

[Retired_for_now]

Boldly glued - lucidly presented - and a beautiful result!

Yogi

[EricGoedkoop]

Nice work, Mirco. This approach is quite similar to Harry Woodman's technique - one that I tried without success to adapt to card modeling a number of years ago. I'm glad to see that it does indeed work when properly done!

I would recommend using filament silk thread for the spokes - it has virtually no fuzz, adheres perfectly with white glue and is available in many colors. It will also shrink after being dampened, which is a very useful trait. I find 100wt to be about right for 1/33 scale aeroplane wheels (and rigging).

I think your wheels will be quite convincing when finished and colored, and hope to see some good use made of this tutorial. Thanks for sharing!

[Mirco]

Thank you all for your kind comments.

-> Leif: Of course you are right, one of the images is mirrored . I'll fix it by Monday when I get to my computer.

And yes, nothing else than normal white glue was used.

Thanks for creating the PDF. Personally, I don't like PDFs in general, because they're big, ineditable, hard to resize, blur images etc. and anyone can download or print the HTML version anyway, so I would never make a PDF on my own.
Sooo... feel free to do whatever you want, I'm giving you all the rights for PDFing or uploading this thing anywhere . Consider this tutorial a public domain.

-> Eric: thank you for the tip.

[Leif Ohlsson]

Thanks Mirco. I edited the file (mirrored the image) and uploaded it. When it is cleared by admin, it will be available here.

Leif

[Art Deco]

Great technique, well-described, clear and high-quality photography - an excellent tutorial! Thanks very much for making it and sharing it with us!

[richkat]

Thank you, Thank you.....Rich

[ashevilleangler]

Thanks to both Micro and Leif! One of the great things about this forum is how generous members are with their time and talents.

Curt

[DrLaser]

Excellent tutorial - clear, easy to understand, good pictures, nice technique.
I certainly want to try this, but instead of threat I'll use tippet (of course).
Thanks much.

[whulsey]

Great job, thanks to both of you: Micro for putting the article together and Leif for creating the PDF.

[Vorcha]

Genius!!!!!