Photo-etch........Not that hard.

I aggree!

 

to an extent! 

waste gate wrote:

Listen, I've lurked here for a long time with the few excursions into posting and answering posts when I thought it appropriate.  Many times I've noticed the trial and tribulations of Photo-etched add ons.  W/I the last couple of days I tried my first PE attachement using Edwards Zoom Color and a Hasegawa F-15C.  Ya know what.  It wasn't that hard!! In fact it was very enjoyable and the outcome is much above what I could have done with dry brushing, scratch building, etc.  I will never again be afraid to use PE, and I hope others will disregard the hype and enjoy the hobby and their work.

Interesting you should post this now.  I just finished an Eduard PE cockpit for Academy's 1/72 Hellcat...my first as well.  You're right, it was fairly easy.  Eduard's instructions were very clear and made my first foray into the medium pleasant.  Look forward to more of Eduard's stuff, but next time a bit larger than 1/72, I hope!

The thing with most cockpit sets, however, is that they don't involve a tremendous amount of folding and user fabrication to the metal itelf. I have to aggree that the cockpit sets are great for getting started with PE, just enough to get you that detail without the frustration!

i agree on a/c it is pretty much straight forward  but   try ships   not so easy  long pcs that need bending/folding    and on the  many times complete masts made of 10-15   tiny  pcs that have to be glued together before mounting it to the ship

...just try a long railing for a 1:700 ww2 destroyer ;)

 

 

Depends on what you start with. 1997 - In a case of ignorant gluttony for punishment , I started my first ship in over a decade, Tamiya's 1/700 Enterprise CV6 , as she was in early 1944. Two Eduard sets, some scratchbuilding and 13 months later, I had a decent model of the Big "E". I did have to keep reminding myself "It's only a hobby, it's only a hobby". I was happy with the results and have used PE ever since. To me it was gratifying to learn another skill and become better at it.

I've never had any problems with P/E..... it glues quite easilyto my fingers, eyebrows, elbows.....

 

jwb wrote:

I've never had any problems with P/E..... it glues quite easilyto my fingers, eyebrows, elbows.....

LOL!  Yeah, I did have a couple of interesting conversations with the wife and kid that began, "OK...nobody move!!  Where's the flashlight?!?"  And then I put a towel in my lap to catch those fly away pieces!  Much easier than crawling on the floor with the flashlight.

At least with armor models, one has to remember that just because the include a PE replacement part, does not mean one has to use that replacement part. Many times, the molded on kit detail or the actual plastic piece is better than the PE part. This is especially true when dealing with 1/35 scale grab rails. The PE parts would be like grabbing knife blades compared to the round plastic pieces they replace.

good point ROB     much depends on the genre of model

I once cut some p/e and it shot off my bench here in Texas and landed on Jon's bench in the Carolina's. I still owe Jon the postage for mailing it back to me.

Thad