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Originally posted by Hiroboy
Very cool kit,
How did you make the photoetched bits yourself?
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It's not too difficult, you need to generate the artwork for the parts, in this case three sets of two different shaped bumper blades. You print or copy the artwork onto a special blue film that works as a photo resist, so your printer or the copy machine must be a laser printer, because the toner is the photo resist. Once you print/copy onto the film, you transfer that film onto a piece of brass by using a hot iron. Once you've heated the film enough, you peel it off and the toner is deposited on the brass.
You then immerse the brass into a bowl of etchant material, which can be purchased at Radio Shack in the states, and you leave it in the etchant until it etches through the areas around the parts. These bumpers took several hours.
Once the parts are finished, you must sand/polish them to a high gloss like you would a paint job. There's a home nickel-plating setup available that you immerse the brass parts into to get the shiny nickel plating. It's really cool, the plating only took about 10 minutes. It required soldering a piece of steel wire onto each part. After plating you clean everything up, polish it, and assemble. For more information on the exact details and company contacts, you can PM me.