Hi, I'm back again with a german plane. Dragon (Trimaster) kit. 1/48. Pretty nice model, with some fiting problems located on wing/tail areas. The cockpit photoeched parts are almost unusable. Markings are airbrushed, except the tail insignias. Cheers,
chukw1
California, United States Joined: November 28, 2007
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Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 07:23 AM UTC
Again, that's some great work you got there!
The photoetched parts were of the stainless steel kind, I presume? Very hard material, tough to remove from the fret, clean up and bend due to the hardness and the tendency to spring back to the original shape. Annealing the parts or even the whole fret with a lighter makes handling steel PE much easier. When heated and let cool down on their own they lose the springiness become much easier to cut and clean up as well.