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how to use photoetch parts

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how do you use photoetch parts? theres probly a post on this and i cant find it.

thanks in advance :)
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er, define "use".

How do you apply them? With a little CA usually. With mutli-part pieces you can CA or solder them together.
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What are they for? I've never heard of them before till I got on here. So they are ment as a detailing? I thought it was some kind of stencle. Lol guess to put it simply what are they used for
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Post by Mad-Modeler »

I usually attach with bit of CA/white-glue and hit them with the brush and metal primer.

Now if you are talking working hinges like on a tiger, etc that is a different ball-game.

Chiver.

PE parts can also be stencils. Really depends on the kit.
Often you will have to sands down kit details to use PE.
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o ok thanks alot.
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When I was a teen, I frequently used PE cockpit kits for my aircraft. You could get plane specific controls with little bits of round and square plastic to make 3-d controls. I attached them with C/A glue, in fact I used Crazy Glue™ brand because there was nothing else.

There are many types of CA now, much better suited to modeling, but, well, there ya go.
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