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| Subject: | Re: What's your experience with PART photo-etch? |  |
| Date: | Apr 5, 2002 |
| From: | Ed Kusiak | |
Hi Christophe,
I have the Part BA-3 set and it looks very useable, quite nice actually. The
set includes frets of differing thicknesses depending upon application.
To overcome the problem of some parts being too thin, like the doors, the
parts are designed to fold back on themselves, so after gluing you end up
with a double thickness with detail on both sides. Clever. I'm looking
forward to seeing how that works and if cyano will do a good job of
laminating the sheets of brass together.
Disappointing is the fact that there's a slight mismatch when they've
attempted to etch from both sides of the sheet thereby leaving a line on the
part that will need to be filed-out. This is common, though, on many frets I
have from different manufacturers. Getting the "registration" right would be
a tough job at the best of times.
I may laminate the hinges to some .005 sheet styrene using cyano and then
attach to the model with regular glue. This way I can thicken the piece a
bit, retain the photo-etch detail and simplify cementing the tiny parts to
the model.
All in all, I wouldn't hesitate to get any of the Part sets. And, as with
all photo-etch manufacturers, there are parts that in theory seem like a
good idea, but end up being, in practicality, extremely difficult to use.
But, in looking the frets over again, I think I'll probably end up using
most of the parts.
Part's website shows entire kits that you make up from photo-etch including
tiny Polish tankettes in 1/72 scale, IMPRESSIVE. There are scans of the
frets themselves as well as the built up and then painted kits. It's worth
the visit. http://www.part.pl/
Ed Kusiak
I hope I'm not infringing any laws by lifting these images from the Part
website.
This is the 1/72 scale Part T-27, I bet it's small. |
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 | What's your experience with PART photo-etch? - Christophe Jacquemont - Apr 5, 2002 |
| . . . Re: What's your experience with PART photo-etch? - Ed Kusiak - Apr 5, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Actually, that kit is 1/35th, I have it. Yes it is small!(n/t) - Ray Peterson - Apr 5, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . 1/72 really - Ed Kusiak - Apr 5, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: 1/72 really - Ray Peterson - Apr 8, 2002 |
| . . . Re: What's your experience with PART photo-etch? - Kurt Laughlin - Apr 6, 2002 |
| . . . Re: What's your experience with PART photo-etch? - Dmitriy Shumakov - Apr 7, 2002 |
| . . . . . . > Removing photoresist - Kurt Laughlin - Apr 7, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: > Removing photoresist - Dmitriy Shumakov - Apr 7, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: > Removing photoresist - Kurt Laughlin - Apr 7, 2002 |
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