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Accuracy is my watchword. I never make misteaks !!!
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...
Go ahead and try ,carefully, to reroll them.
At this point your in a no better or worse place if it works -great; if not you still have the plastic kit parts.
Steve
Building the perfect model---just not quite yet
Simple--use the kit parts. Those PE parts will hardly lend anything significant to the model, in reality. You can thin the edges of the plastic kit parts a little thinner, and battle damage them in a similar fashion. NO WAY would I use them if they're inside out.
Tojo72 Also we all have our Duh !! moments
Also we all have our Duh !! moments
that could be a whole thread. i glued the inside seat on the cargo rail of my truck on the wrong side. fortunately i could cut it off with a scalpel w/o any damage. and, before i learned the PE trick, i was folding ammo can racks for 1/35 MAS boat and destroyed 4 of the 6. made a jig and made all 6 out of styrene.
Никто не Забыт (No one is Forgotten)Ничто не Забыто (Nothing is Forgotten)
i wonder if heating them up before re rolling them would make it less likely to break. a techjnique i use on any complicated or questionable pe bending is:
1. trace the part out on a 3x5 card. doesn't have to be perfect
2. draw all the bend lines and score them on the correct side
3. practice folding until you are confident with the correct way to bend it and the sequence
4. do the pe one
if the paper one falls apart just make a second one.
If they look good then leave them and add weathering and mud,or try bending them back,but you may loose them if they break,but then you still have the kit parts which should be okay.So it's up to you if you are satisfied or not.
It's been almost a year since I had time to get back into building my models, too much stuff going on.
Anyway I was starting back on my Dragon Late Production Tiger I and I am using the Voyager PE set and I screwed up on a couple large PE parts.
Not sure what they are called but they are two covers for the rear exhaust. With the PE we have to bend them into shape with rollers and I did it to match the parts that came with the model, no problem there. They look good and I ever did some battle damage. I put them on the tank and realized I made a major mistake. I bended them INSIDE OUT. The grove on the top and bottom is on the outside instead of being on the inside.
What can I do?? Is it possible to bend them back ever with the small battle damage. Or should I just use the model parts and forget the battle damage? I am using a lot of PE on this There is no way I'm buying another PE set just to get those parts to do over.
Anybody got any ideas? I can't believe I didn't see that before I started bending.
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