pre-painted PE

[shortCummins]

so while building my Swordfish for the In the Navy SiG I'm using some pre-painted PE from Eduard I had a wee bit of a problem bending the 'main' harness straps over the seat as the 'paint' cracked and flaked off, I managed to glue it back in place but I'm not sure how I could have bent this without it cracking? as its pre-painted so it can't be annealed?

any suggestions?

rgds
John(shortCummins)

[MarkVerploeg]

I think it is due to the part itself
It is not really painted but it is a kind of printed foil that is on there
But i made seatbelts for my Thunderbolt a few days ago and i didn't have any problems with them
So maybe it is just a one time incident

[chief5437]

It's pretty delicate stuff, and will crack if bent too sharply, or often. Easy to touch up with paint once in place though!

[Alkosh]

I'm having the same problem with my MiG-21MFN set. Just trying to file or sand the PE is causing the printing to flake off and it's impossible to bend this stuff around a curve without it flaking off. A large part of the color PE sidewall on my MiG-21 flaked off just by holding it in place...

I don't think I'll buy any more of it.