Painted Photo Etch Flags

Eduard'a PE is a bit robust and is often a bit difficult to pull this off, but this is what I do with sheet lead flags:

lay 3 or 4 straight pins on the table

place flag over pins so that the wave wrinkles appear as desired

Place 3 or 4 more pins over the flag so that they fall between the under pins

press down so the pins make a corrugated wave

adjust as necessary

I just submitted one of those new short writeups (forget what they are called) about making flags to FSM.  Have no idea if they will accept it.  It is for making flags from paper, not PE.

My approach is similar to EdGrune's...I lay the part on one of those flat red rubber erasers, and use pin-nails to 'roll' the desired curves into the flag. Go gently...the prepainted finish tends to want to flake off if you get too vigorous.

Hi Mark!

       What I do with those is this. If its at sea and doing say Eighteen knots is I shape them over pins in a confused pattern. If she's (the Ship) at rest, I use Bamboo skewers and shape over that .For the shaping part on the top I use one of those chisel shaped Pencil replacement erasers. I push gently and it doesnt cause the paint to chip.Then I put a coat of flat Paint on a brush(Not much now) and they hold up well.