Quite a few of our smaller models have cabane or interplane struts made out of music wire. This is quite a strong and effective method of accomplishing the job, but you very rarely see a full-scale bird that every strut is not streamlined. This has been a little difficult todo with the wire struts. It's just one of those little fine points that the lazy ones among us never get around to doing.

Well lazy ones, there isn't any excuse any more for allowing thoseugly round wires to continue to disgrace your model. Troop on down to your local auto parts store, and pick up a few pieces of Chrome Door Edge Protector. This is a plastic molding, usually chromed, that is designed to slip over the rear edge of a passenger door on a car to protect the paint along the edges of the door. Slipped over those ugly wire struts, it gives a nice, standoff scale version of streamlined, chromed struts. Very neat, rather cheap, and certainly SIMPLE. Even I can now have streamlined struts. That is if I ever got ambitious enough to build a plane that used them.