THE SMALL SHOP HOLD & FOLD PE TOOL
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Working with photoetch can be fraught with all kinds of difficulties but there's no doubt it's a great way to enhance your scale models.
The Small Shop from America makes a Hold & Fold range of specialist tools which can be purchased from Historex Agents - www.historexage....
You'll find that they make using & bending photoetched brass detail sets much simpler. In this short video we show two, the small "Bug" & the 5.5inch Hold & Fold.
Enjoy.
I don't use a lot of photo etch, but i do have the medium 3 inch size. It is great! Extremely well made. It is a huge help, especially if making pieces from scratch. It's given me the confidence to take things to the next level
Nobody who uses this tool had explained its other usage. What are those curves on plate are used for? These are are not just decoration. Please explain them.
I have just got one of these tools today & now I can't wait to do some photo etching. Hence why I am watching this video in the first place. Also mine wasn't that expensive, it was only £44.99. Those tool clasps can drive anyone nuts so hopefully this tool will make that job easier.
I just want to say that this tool review video is amazing. Thank you for sharing these tools with us. Now I will have to check out your archive videos . Thanks again and Best of Luck!
AlfonsoTheTraitor Thanks!
@@scalewarmachines I have both Tools. I am a Ship Modeler. I only build Ships from the Imperial Japanese Navy. Because they are absolutely Beautyful. And there are many,many Photo Etched Parts.
Yes,the Tools are Expensive. But when you will high Quality Tools you must Invest.
Great bit of kit that, looks like it will really make life easier for the modeller.
The 5.5inch Hold & Fold is certainly one of the best on the market. The Bug is a great little useful tool as well. If budget can be stretched...ideally both!
what a nice modelling channel!
Thanks for your wonderful work!
+Claudio Trabalzi Thanks Claudio - kind words.
Good work 👍
Always bring the good stuff to see
REEPARKILL ER Thanks - glad you like.
I've already purchased one and am waiting for it to arrive. I'll be working on the 1/350th scale USS Arizona (Eduard photo etch). There are three sheets of photo etch ( a lot of photo etch and a "zillion" small pieces) as well as a separate photo etch sheet just of railings. I have limited experience (mostly bad) with photo etch but decided to "jump into the deep end of the pool" with this. I'm retired so I have oodles of time to wrangle this critter, but if anyone would be so kind as to point me in the right direction for working on the USS Arizona I promise to say nice things about you. As a "By the way" I also purchased metal barrels and a wooden deck deck along with replacements for the 5'25 open mount guns...so all I need now is a 1/350th scale coffee cup to put in the mitt of that 1/350th scale CPO I also purchased.
i had to create munition for a machine gun. these were so tiny hou do you give them a half round shape. aprox 1 mm in wide en 5 length
Is the 5.5in good for small p/e too? Seem like a person needs both?
Start with the 5.5in. Then, if you like doing teeny tiny photoetch then get the Bug, otherwise, the 5.5 is sufficient for most general applications.
@@scalewarmachines Thanks for the quick response! Ya im really thinking the 5.5in. This is the PE kit I will be using on my Sherman. As you can see lots of small and big PE. www.ebay.com/itm/264368623544?ViewItem=&item=264368623544
wow , can u bend tubes with this tool? like for pluming in 1/12 scale tube bending tool i need...
kairus1 I don't think it's suited to anything rounded. It's fine for flat stuff. For bending rounded things you could try The Small Shop "Wrangler". ua-cam.com/video/JCceJYDtvaM/v-deo.html.
Scale War Machines thank you
hi scalies mate could you show how to bend some thing intricate like a legend productions isreali 7.62 magazine holder from one of there tanks like a magach7c please from Shane in Sydney Australia
+Shane Curry Will try if we have time. Our tip, use the "Bug" PE tool, featured in our video. Check this video out on photoetch & bending tools too (ua-cam.com/video/4REEm6P54ro/v-deo.html)
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These things are way to expensive! You can make one for less than $10.00.