what is photoetching?

Photo etching is the processes where you take your PE set (photo etch set) and apply the brass to the model kit, search through the armor forum and look for the title 'PE Hell' you will get the drift.

EDIT: Here is a link...

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44647

Hope this helps.

thanks Ill check it out tomarrow; his bandwith is exceeded today.

so their just metal parts? like in the kit is shows an overlay of PE on the rotors. so is it real metal that would jut look better than painting? kinda like the metal decal transfers they have? but larger, thicker, and cut 3d?

Something like that, if you are going to get a pe set, I strongly suggest that you buy a etch mate or some other bending tool. Most of the pe parts completely replace the plastic parts.

Go here http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5977054792 this is a link that will give you some idea of what the pe replaces.

Good luck!

ah I see; so a thin brass plating kinda kit.

I dont think my Z will be missing much... looks nifty on armored vehicles though.

Ya, I don't know about cars, just armour.

Photetching or PE as it is commonly known is an intaglio process in which the etching plate is coated with a light-sensitive acid-resistant ground and exposed, through a dot screen, to a photographic image. A "negative" resist dissolves in the areas that are exposed to light, while hardening in areas not exposed to it. Thus pits are etched and ink is held in the areas that appear light in the photographic image. A positive resist dissolves where it is not exposed to light.

Typically this is in modeling used to create detailed parts in scale thickness that are beyond injected styrene technology.


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