Were can i buy white ensign model photo etched details in the united states at a good price. I am looking for a internet site. I am going to build a trumpeter 1/350 uss yorktown and want to detail it.
Nick
Hi there
here is white ensigns web site, it may be of help to you.
HTH
Pete
I checked out those sites. I have neaver used photo etch befor but it seems a little expensive. Is their cheaper detail sets that would still give me a nice model? Or maby a cheaper brand?
Nick
I’d recommend the White Ensign Model web site. Yes it’s from England, but the only time I tried to order WEM stuff from Pacific Front they took 6 weeks to get me some stuff, and another 4 weeks to get the rest. Officially they have a book backordered now for the last 4 months. Got tried of waiting and went to LHS and bought it.
However, I’ve ordered off the WEM web site twice, and both times had everything ordered within a week and a half. They are good people who take good care of you. And even though the prices are in pounds sterling, the credit card companys make the conversion automaticly.
Photo-etch is not cheap no matter where you get it. Tom’s modelworks, and Gold Metal Models also make sets for the Hornet (you’d be converting a Hornet to the Yorktown, right?).
Tom’s would probably be the cheapest.
There are cheaper 'generic" sets if you just want to try
your hand at it in a simple way.
There are sets of railings, hatches, doors, ladders, that sort
of thing. Just search the sites you were given above and you
can see what’s available.
James [:)]
Tom’s Modelworks makes a good set for Hornet, especially if you haven’t worked with PE before. WEM and GMM are much thinner and more difficult to work with.
Jeff Herne