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Title: Metal etching service
Post by: sinjon on April 28, 2007, 07:06:43 am

You may all know this one already, I came across it when I was looking for a company to do some metal etching, an Austrian model boat site, very good, and in English.    

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Colin

Title: Re: Metal etching service
Post by: Tug-Kenny RIP on March 31, 2011, 08:11:10 pm

Talk about reviving an old post.   %)

I was using our "Search engine" to find any information on etching a set of guard rails with stanchions at 1:175 scale.  These will be for my Titanic and there's miles of em on board.  O0 probably around a total length of 15 to 20 feet.  Mind you, if I could get stanchions at this height I would thread miniature wire through them myself.

It turns out that the height will be 0.35 inch  (I'm still not used to metric !!) and they are 5 bars and 4 bars types, with handrails as well.  It does read as impossible but I've found the scale is very similar to 'N' gauge railways and I have some of their 'Little people' which look the business (as they say). They do railway fences in plastic and I'm surveying this route as well as long as their not vertical picket type fences.

Who says Model boat building isn't fun.   :} :} :}   What a challenge.

Hope you help me.

Ken

 

Title: Re: Metal etching service
Post by: ACTion on March 31, 2011, 08:55:47 pm

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Title: Re: Metal etching service
Post by: Tug-Kenny RIP on March 31, 2011, 09:07:22 pm

Thank you Dave.   :-))

Ken

Title: Re: Metal etching service
Post by: Umi_Ryuzuki on March 31, 2011, 09:47:26 pm

Good link to the etching service...
Very informative.


As for stanchions, there are a variety of scales available here. Maybe the 1:200 scale might work for the titanic?
http://www.saemann-aetztechnik.de/aetzteile/index.html

Nothing quite small enough here... down to 1:100
http://shop.modellbau-kaufhaus.de/modules.php?warp=categories&group=382

Google translation for Modellbau Kaufhaus
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.modellbau-kaufhaus.de/&ei=IN-UTcjpF9GztwfHxMiRDA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB4Q7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmodellbau%2Bkaufhaus%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dopera%26hs%3DT1O%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Divns

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Photos below are of the saemann-aetztechnik.de recently sent to me by TomB.

Title: Re: Metal etching service
Post by: Tug-Kenny RIP on April 01, 2011, 11:49:07 am

Thank you for that Umi.  I think this is the way to go. I shall try brass strips at 9mm with 4 holes and thread them when on the boat.

I didn't really want the parallel bars as solid etch as they would have been a bit weak.

Cheers

Ken