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Professor Stephen
Me?
I hate PE. It is my white whale, my nemesis, my Javert, my bete noir. Rotten stuff never holds properly and usually drops off after gluing , bends incorrectly, and is a bugger to clean up. I have a few kits with PE that sit on the shelves grinning evily at me. I would rather scratch build a close facsimile of a part than use a PE variety (except for seat belts and they are easy).
And what sadist invented PE control horns and turnbuckles? We hatess them, yes we doesss.
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Thank heaven for that. I thought it was just me! PE is the pits, and more so when used inappropriately. Struts have been mentioned already, pressure pumps are another ludicrous example. The Early Eduard kits were full of the stuff. What on earth possessed Czechs, still the worlds best at resin, to offer an origami machine gun in fifteen trillion parts?
Control horns may be one of the few items in PE that are actually useful though. I attach them at an early stage, usually prior to painting. A tiny amout of white glue in the smallest depression scratched carefully at the location with a scalpel will hold it in place and the paint will secure it. A drop of paint applied to the area before the final paint job helps with handling during construction.