How to make a.....?

[rickshaw]

Does anybody know an easy way to make a "V"-type arrestor hook easily?

[Supertom]

The only way I know of is to get two pieces of plastic rod together, cut at the tips at the angle as mating surfaces, then squared off at the tip to make room for a hook.  Okay it makes sense to me but I'm guessing it won't to you.  For a hook I think you can get away with a piece of square plastic card, with a hole drilled around it, then form the loop of the hook by sanding way the access plastic around the card.

[sequoiaranger]

....but there are also aftermarket white-metal ones ("C Scale", if they are still around).

Most of my builds are carrier aircraft with tailhooks, and most of the tailhooks were "scratch-built" by me.

I made one "VEE" hook for my Globrey Blordiator biplane and the recent Fairchild Flounder. I had two identical "standard" tailhooks and slightly bent the hook ends in opposite directions, then glued the hooks together. Now I had my "V" (of course, I had measured the correct angle and gap to fit the model fuselage). I then shaved down the outside edge of the joined tailhooks to make "one" hook (though it was still extra wide---hey, this is whiffland, you know). Crude, perhaps, but it worked.

Too, you can look in stash kits for landing-gear supports or other already-V-shaped plastic parts, then stick a hook on the end. I have used ROCO Mini-tanks "extra gear" tow-hooks meant for HO-scale trucks as well.

I have also taken thin sprue, slightly-heated one end just enough to soften it A LITTLE, and bent the soft end around a round toothpick and let it cool/harden.