No, I’m not talking about the people down the club who can make perfect PE parts every time and cement them on with no problems. I admire them. I’m talking about the Bohemian types who dream up the extra-thin parts on the PE sheets and expect you to be able to manipulate them into components.
When a brass part is literally as thin as a human hair it is a case of blowing a raspberry at the purchaser of the kit. There is no way a normal human could cut it free from the fret, let alone fold it over and attach it. It is a brassy sneer at the builder.
It’s particularly obvious when it is to be attached to an injected part and you realize that it is neither necessary, nor more detailed than a moulded part would be – and that if they had merely milled a bleb out of the block the thing would have been there in plastic to begin with.
I do agree with some PE for landing gear parts that are so spidery as to be unmouldable. Made sturdily enough, it is an asset on a liability. and some parts like dive brakes are big enough to let everyone have some success. But control horns and wires? Pfffff.
The Little World 
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