Dear Gashmore,
Welcome to fibre standing rigging.
I have rigged numerous masts with Dux and as long as you pay particular attention to chafe prevention and shroud angles whilst being obsesively careful about lengths during splicing and after pre-loading, you should be able to use modified standard turnbuckles.
The D3 can be spliced into the V3/D4 but a better solution is to modify the spreader tip and terminate at an amply sized link plate or even a very stout ring.
The turnbuckle-at-the-mast-tang solution is an old trick and cleans up the spreader tips a treat at the expense of a slightly higher C of G. I do not know why more people do not use it!
I am at risk of teaching my grandmother to suck eggs now, but make sure you run some numbers on the loads involved and do not just take the sizes of the original wires and "go a bit bigger" otherwise you are floundering in the dark and may not get the result you need.
Regards,
Joe Henderson..
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